 |
Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes |
Ready In: 30 Minutes Servings: 24 |
|
When I was a kid, I would stop at McKinna's Bakery on the way home from church picking up a dozen or so pastries for my grandmother. These were always my favorite ones. They are very time consuming to make, but to me they are well worth the effort. Read more . How many servings will depend on how thick you roll the pastry shell. Left over batter can be cooked as a cupcake too. Ingredients:
pastry shell |
6 cups of flour |
2 cups crisco |
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder |
1/2 teaspoon salt |
1 teaspoon baking soda |
1 teaspoon cram of tartar |
1 cup milk |
strawberry jelly (or any berry flavor you like) |
cake |
1 white cake mix (water oil and eggs per box) |
2 teaspoons rum or almond flavoring |
1 cup finely chopped coconut |
1 cup finely chopped walnuts |
icing |
1 cup powdered sugar |
few tablespoons boiling water |
1 tablespoon crisco |
couple of drops of milk |
cocoa powder |
Directions:
1. Pastry Shell
2. Mix together all ingredients
3. roll out like a pie dough
4. Cut to be about the size of a cupcake shell
5. mold the dough into cupcake pan that has been lightly sprayed with cooking spray (I like bakers joy for this recipe)
6. Once all the shells have been placed into the cupcake pans, drop 1/2 teaspoon of jelly into the bottom of each shell
7. Cake filling
8. Mix cake mix according to box, adding the above additional ingredients
9. Spoon cake into the shells with the jelly.
10. Fill as you would a cupcake, about 3/4 ways full
11. Bake at 350 for about 30 min
12. Tops should be a dark golden brown
13. Allow to cool till the cake feels cool to the touch.
14. Slip a knife in besides each cake to help lift it out and finish cooling completely
15. White icing
16. Mix all icing ingredients together, adding water one tablespoon at a time until the icing is nice and creamy.
17. If it is too funny, just add powdered sugar to it
18. Spread icing on each of the cakes and allow the icing to harden
19. Fern design
20. With the remaining icing add some cocoa powder to give it a rich chocolate color and taste.
21. Using a plastic baggie, put icing in bag, snip off a small piece of the corner of baggie.
22. Pipe a vertical line down the center of the icing
23. Now place two V's over the chocolate line to make what looks like a tree (fern)
24. I didn't take the above picture, but it will give you an idea what they should look like.
|
|