I grew up in a family of cookers and bakers. Some of my earliest memories are from being in the kitchen with my grandmother and mother making different types of food. Some of my favorite recipes include my mother’s pasta sauce, my grandmother’s chicken tenders, and family recipes of pumpkin pie and Mrs. Deubin’s cake.
My family has been making this one cake for as long as I can remember. It is one of the most DELICIOUS yellow cake recipes and is super, super simple. Just recently I have found out the story behind the recipe and it was not at all what I was expecting. I was under the impression that Mrs. Deubin was a family member, but she was not related in any way. My grandmother had a next door neighbor when my mother was young, her neighbor had a woman who came in to clean and cook from time to time. The woman who cleaned for my grandmothers neighbor also worked for Mrs. Deubin. When Mrs. Deubin passed on the recipe to her house keeper, it was so loved that it was passed to my grandmothers neighbor and on to my grandmother. It has been passed down to my mother and now to me. I decided to include the original wording of the recipe, but I will put notes for any adaptations that need to happen to connect to today’s standard baking measurements.
Mrs. Deubin’s Yellow Cake
Ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- 1 jar of heavy cream (This is 8oz of heavy cream or 1 cup)
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cup self-rising cake flour (self-rising cake flour doesn’t exist anymore so make sure to use self-rising flour)
Substitutions for self-rising cake flour:
For one cup of all purpose flour add 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder and 1/2 tsp of salt.
For the recipe you would need 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour, 2 1/4 tsp baking powder and 3/4 tsp of salt
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 350
- Beat eggs, 1/2 jar (1/2 cup) heavy cream, vanilla and sugar together
- Add remaining 1/2 jar of heavy cream, and the sifted flour. (Normally I’m not one to sift flour, but this needs to be sifted)
- Pour batter evenly into 2, 8″ round cake pans
- Bake 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean
Now comes the hard part, frosting and decorating!
You can just as easily use a boxed cake mix to make the layers of the cake. This is completely up to you as far as flavor or made from scratch or box mix. Any frosting recipe will work as well, as long as it is a thin consistency.
To watch how to layer and stack as well as frosting a cake watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csw6RHG7TW4&feature=youtu.be
Once you’ve done it once it won’t seem quite as daunting. Trust yourself, you can do this!!
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