Bonnie Butter Cake

I made this on Saturday night, more out of nostalgia and curiosity than anything. It is one of the recipes I made as a kid from my mom's Betty Crocker Cookbook. I used the all purpose flour going for authenticity (we rarely had cake flour at home). Got distracted and forgot to alternate the flour, milk, flour, milk. So it came out a little tougher than my usual cakes. Then I couldn't find my go to chocolate frosting recipe so it waited a little longer than is ideal to be ready to eat. I'll attach the marble cake option which I used, perhaps I've out grown that too.

2/3 c. soft butter
1 3/4 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 t. vanilla
3 c. cake flour or 2 3/4 c. all purpose flour
2 1/2 t. baking powder
1 t. salt
1 1/4 milk

Heat oven to 350. Grease and flour two 9"layer pans or one 9x13" cake pan. Cream butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until fluffy. Beat 5 minutes, high speed on mixer or by hand. Blend flour, baking powder and salt. Mix in alternately with mil. Use low speed on mixer. Pour into pans. Bake layers 30-40 minutes, cake pan 45-50 minutes. Cool.

If you want to marble the cake...
1 oz. unsweetened chocolate, melted
2 T. warm water
1 T. sugar
1/4 t. soda.

Make Bonnie Butter Cake-except pour on 2/3 of batter into pans. Beat into remaining batter for about 30 sec. a mixture of unsweetened chocolate, melted, warm water, sugar and soda. Pour here and there over light batter. Cut through batter with knife several times for marbled effect.

from Betty Crocker's New Picture Cook Book

How Was It?/What's for Dinner? 2/6-12/12

Monday: Nando's
Tuesday: Honey-Soy Salmon with Spinach & Peppers
Wednesday: The Worst Japanese Food Ever!
Thursday: Chicken Spinach Noodle Casserole
Friday: Salmon Fillet & Roasted Broccoli
Saturday: Navy Bean Soup & Beer Bread
Sunday: Steak & Roasted Fingerling Potatoes

Chicken with Proscuitto, Asiago Cheese & Fresh Sage is always yummy. The last step in the oven to make the cheese melty and proscuitto crispy went much longer than the recipe suggested, this oven and I are still coming to terms. The kid even liked it more than in the past.

Mini Meatball & Noodle Soup: I really should start this earlier in the day so I don't rush the meatballs. There isn't much to them, sausage filling and breadcrumbs, but they start getting not so mini and cooked too fast the last couple of batches. I have figured out a different more spoon friendly noodle, but I am still tweaking the volume. This round was a little noodle light.

We will ignore the middle part of the week under the heading of we did not have quorum for interesting cooking.

Frittata: Possibly our best frittata to date. We are more a quiche crowd, but pie crust doesn't really help with any nutrition goals so improvement in frittata production is probably a win. This one was Potato, Spinach & Ham. I cheated and used some hash browns from my freezer in place of thinly sliced new potatoes and again patience was the name of the game with the oven. Cook til golden, timer just reminds you to look at it.