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Date: 01-11-93 (22:38)             Number: 85
From: FRODO #159 @6095*1           Refer#: NONE
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Subj: MILKY WAY CAKE                 Conf: (37) Home Cooki
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Here's a recipe that the kids LOVE!  I got it from the newspaper a
couple of years ago.  WARNING: THIS RECIPE IS NOT FOR ANYONE WHO IS ON A
DIET!!!!!!!

                             MILKY WAY CAKE

2 1/2 cups Flour
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
Pinch Salt
1/2 pound (2 sticks Butter)
2 cups Sugar
2 teaspoons Vanilla
6 Milky Way Bars (2.15 oz. each)
6 Eggs (at room temperature)
1 cup Buttermilk

Heat oven to 300 degrees.

Line bottom of 9 1/2 or 10 inch tube pan with baking parchment or waxed
paper and lightly grease sides.  Set aside.

Sift flour with baking soda and salt.  Set aside.

Put half the butter (one stick) in large bowl of a stand-type mixer, and
beat until light.  Add the sugar and keep beating until the mixture holds
together; there is too much sugar for it to really "cream", but the
smoother the better.

Combine the remaining butter (one stick) with the Milky Way bars in a
heavy saucepan.  Cook over a low heat, stirring constantly, just until
the mixture is completely melted and a smooth thick liquid.

Beat eggs into the butter/sugar mixture, one at a time.  Then beat in
a scant half of the dry ingredients.  With the machine on, add the
melted Milky Way mixture as close as possible to all at once, aiming
for the beaters as you pour.

When the candy is thoroughly blended in, add the remaining dry
ingredients, then the buttermilk and vanilla.

Turn the patter into the pan.  Bake for 1 hour 25 minutes (about 55
minutes if you're doing it in a brownie pan - about 20-25 minutes for
cupcakes), or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Let cake cool in the pan for about 10 minutes, then turn out of pan
and finish cooling on a rack.

IF ICING WITH MILKY WAY ICING, ICE CAKE WHILE CAKE AND ICING ARE
WARM, otherwise let cake cool completely before frosting.


                       MILKY WAY ICING

4 Tablespoons (1/2 stick) Butter
2 Milky Way Bars (2.15 oz each)
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
1 cup sifted confectioners' Sugar

Melt butter and candy together in a heavy saucepan over a low heat.
Beat in the vanilla and sugar.  Spread over cake while still warm.