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Caramel Cake

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  • on March 19, 2009

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    This was a very good cake. I've made it twice in the last week. The cake is airy which might lead some to say dry. I think there is too much frosting though. It is a sweet cake. My father in law is a caramel fanatic and he is still raving about it. My mom enjoyed this cake for her birthday as well. The cakes didn't fall in the over or when I pulled them out, but when I stacked them, there was a noticable dip in the center. The second time I made it, I let the cakes cool a bit in the pans (5-8 min. and the last one stuck some in the pan, but I didn't flour that one as well either. I'll make it again.

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  • on March 17, 2009

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    I've been watching Paula Deen cooking shows for a longgggg time!!! I am impressed with everything she does. I have tried many of her recipe's. This one was a flop!!!!! With a big FLOP! I followed the directions to the T, whipping the butter and sugar adding one egg at a time, adding the dry ingredients and then the milk and ending with flourand lastly I did the dropping on the counter top from 4 inches. I even sifted the flour and I never do that. I have been a cake baker and had my own business for 18 years. I have NEVER had a cake fall on me. NEVER and I dip cake batter from the middle of the large pans and pour it around the edge and corners to make them even and a cake again has NEVER fallen. I opened the oven door to slowly turn the cake pans around to help with even baking and one of the cakes immediatly fell. The other one fell about 3 minutes later and nobody was anywhere near the oven. I finished the cake putting it together and everything. I agree with a few others, it had the texture of corn bread and there wasn't any flavor to it at all. The frosting was exceptional and so was the sugar combination that was drizzled over the cake. But I have been making brown sugar frosting for years. That wasn't hard. BUT I want to know, WHY did the cake fall?

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  • on March 15, 2009

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    I have never had such a bad experience baking a cake in my life. Each part of the recipe turned out fine, but once I put them all together it all fell apart. Literally. The cakes couldn't hold the weight of each other and then when I added the frosting it was just too much to hold and my cake collapsed into a million pieces and fell right off the cake plate. This is the second Paula Deen recipe I have tried that has been a complete flop. I am so disappointed.

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  • on January 29, 2009

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    It was so good and sweet and moist. It tasted great days after too.

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  • on January 02, 2009

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    This was the best ever. If you are not the best baker the only advise I can give is take your time and follow the directions, all of them. It gets rave reviews everytime I make it. It is dense and very sweet but very good!!!

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  • on December 15, 2008

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    I had no problems making this cake the first time out. I do think it is a little dry, so the second time I made it I added several ounces of sour cream to the cake, which did the job well. Cake is very sweet but to me.. that's the point of dessert. My family loved it and I thought it tasted even better a day or two after I made it.

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  • on November 30, 2008

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    Despite reading all the reviews, both good and bad, I decided to make this cake anyway. I had absolutely NO problems. My cake was moist, it didn't crumble, it wasn't too dense, and it easily came out of the pans. I think I had such good results because I took the time to read the reviews. The cake is a little heavier than an angel food, but I think you need a heavier cake to complement the heavy caramel icing.

    When baking this cake, there are a few steps you need to really pay attention to. You really need to cream the butter and sugar in the first step. This creates air bubbles in the batter which prevents the cake from being to dense. You also need to allow the cakes to cool in their pans before going on to the next step. I would also recommend tasting the caramel icing as you're making it. Using an entire box of confectioner sugar is a bit much. I ended up using only about a cup or two. If it weren't for the amount of time it took to make the cake, I would have given it five stars.

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  • on November 26, 2008

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    My husband asked for a caramel cake for his birthday and when I saw a Paula Deen recipe I thought it would be perfect. Wrong. The cake was like a sweet corn bread, as the other reviewer commented, and stuck to the pans horribly. The end result is a crumbly mess that DOES NOT taste like caramel. Save your money and time--skip this recipe!

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  • on October 29, 2008

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    I made this for a family members birthday, he LOVES caramel so thought this would be perfect. Wow, what a waste of time and ingredients, it didn't taste horrible, but defin. not good. I got a lot of laughs about it, it looked horrible, and had way too much icing, and was WAY too sweet. To me and everyone that tried it, we thought the cake tasted like corn bread or corn muffins, anyone else think this, or did i do something wrong? lol Will definately NOT make again, but you can try it, it isn't horrible, just way too sweet and messy looking for me, and didnt taste like caramel!

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  • on October 11, 2008

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    A little on the sweet side but this is one great cake. I have made it a couple of times for different occasions and its always a hit. Just for a little something extra, try taking a little cheat from the store and use a butter pecan cake mix you wont be dissapointed.

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