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Vanilla Wafer Cake Recipe From Mama Reed by Gordon Ramsay

Mama Reed’s Vanilla Wafer Cake Recipe


Mama Reed’s Vanilla Wafer Cake Recipe

Today y’all I’m adding Mama Reed’s Vanilla Wafer Cake to the list of recipes I worry what your life will be without!

This cake is the kissing cousin of my Apple Dapple Cake. They come from a different branch of the family but chances are if you have the good sense to like one of them, you’ll like the other as well.

My mother got this vanilla wafer cake recipe from her grandmother, Mama Reed. Mama Reed had an expansive array of recipes but this cake was my mother’s favorite by far. When she married my father, this was the first recipe she asked for to use in her own kitchen.

Ingredients for Mama Reed’s Vanilla Wafer Cake Recipe

Ingredients for Vanilla Wafer Cake

You’ll need:

  • Eggs
  • Coconut
  • Milk
  • Vanilla wafers
  • Sugar
  • Nuts (we use pecans -pronounced puh-kahns)

Crushing Nilla Wafers For Mama Reed’s Vanilla Wafer Cake Recipe

  • Place vanilla wafers in a large sealable bag and crush them with the rolling pin or any other stress relieving device.

Crushed Wafers for Mama Reed’s Vanilla Wafer Cake Recipe

  • Crush your vanilla wafers like this (see above).

Mixing Up Mama Reed’s Vanilla Wafer Cake Recipe

  • Beat up your eggs well and coarsely chop your pecans…

Batter For Mama Reed’s Vanilla Wafer Cake Recipe

  • Then toss all ingredients into a mixing bowl and mix until well blended, about two minutes should be more than enough. Until it looks like this. You can do this with an electric mixer or a spoon.

Now if y’all don’t dip a spoon in that and take a bite then something is wrong with you!

In Pan For Mama Reed’s Vanilla Wafer Cake Recipe

  • Pour into a greased and floured tube/bundt pan.

(I just dip a paper towel into some shortening and smear it all over the insides of my pan, then put a few tablespoons of flour in and turn my pan while patting it a bit until the flour has coated the inside. Then I hold it over the trash can upside down and pat it until the excess falls out)

  • Bake at 350 for one hour.

Mama Reed’s Vanilla Wafer Cake Recipe Baked up!

  • Oh my goodness gracious, don’t we all just love Mama Reed now?

A Slice Of Mama Reed’s Vanilla Wafer Cake Recipe

Serve to Vanilla Wafer Cake to happy people! (If they weren’t happy before, they will be now!)

Mama Reed’s Vanilla Wafer Cake

Ingredients

  • 6 whole eggs
  • 3.5 oz can of coconut if you use bagged sweetened flaked coconut, just use 1 cup – don’t use frozen
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 12 ounce box vanilla wafers Mama says don’t use generic ~eyeroll~ I’ll do a “no comment” on that one coz y’all know what I do…
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup chopped nuts we use pecans

You might also enjoy:
Mama Reed’s Tea Cakes

Chocolate Pound Cake with Fudge Glaze

Apple Dapple Cake

Apple Pound Cake – and Being the Person You Need 🙂

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Instant Pot Cold Start Vanilla Greek Yogurt — The Skinny Fork by Gordon Ramsay

Instant Pot Cold Start Vanilla Greek Yogurt — The Skinny Fork



I never in a million years would have guessed that I would ever make yogurt. I don’t know why, but I just never really considered that I even could make it. Mostly because I honestly didn’t know the process of how to make yogurt. And… then I got a pressure cooker.

As it turns out, making yogurt is really easy to do. And what’s better? You can make it just the way you want, in any flavor you want, and as tangy as you want. Plus, making it yourself saves you calories AND money! So, as scary as the concept may seem, it’s definitely worth trying out!

EASY VANILLA CAKE BITES – Butter with a Side of Bread by Gordon Ramsay

EASY VANILLA CAKE BITES - Butter with a Side of Bread


Easy Vanilla Cake Bites are simple glazed bite-sized treats that are so easy to make! Super cute & beyond tasty, these vanilla cake bites will be the hit of the party! These cute, festive treats are perfect for 4th of July or any time you want to be patriotic! Check out more patriotic recipes here.

Easy Vanilla Patriotic Cake BitesI adapted this recipe from our Glazed Lemon Cupcakes recipe and am in love! Talk about the easiest method ever for both making the cake and the frosting, or in this case, a thicker vanilla glaze. You can make all 75 of these cuties in under and hour! They’re perfect for parties and the customization choices are endless. Add whatever sprinkles you’d like- have fun with it!

WHITE CAKE MIX RECIPE

This recipe for Vanilla Cake Bites actually starts with a white cake mix! You add a few basic ingredients to the cake mix: a box of vanilla pudding, eggs, sour cream or yogurt and milk. That’s it! Bake the mini cupcakes, then let them cool for about 5 minutes, invert them onto a cooling rack and they’re ready to be glazed!

Easy Vanilla Patriotic Cake Bites recipe ingredientsCAKE BITES INGREDIENTS

Here’s what you need to make these Little Lemon Cake Bites:

–1 box of white cake mix: use any brand you’d like! Make sure you get the 15.25 oz sized box, which is a standard size for cake mixes.

– instant vanilla pudding mix: Aim to keep the cake as white as possible, so regular vanilla, coconut and even banana would work well.

–5 large egg whites: Again, trying to keep the cake a white color, so we use egg whites instead of the whole egg. If you’d prefer to use the whole egg, you can use 4 large eggs.

–sour cream or plain yogurt: You can use any type of Greek yogurt really, but just remember that it will affect the color of the cake bites.

–milk: for baking, I usually try to stick to regular milk or Almond milk

How to make Easy Vanilla Patriotic Cake BitesCOOKIE SCOOP SIZES

Using cookie scoops really make the process of portioning out the correct amount of cake batter easier. There are 3 standard sizes:

Small Cookie Scoop: Measures a bit over 1 tablespoon of batter

Medium Cookie Scoop: Measures 2 1/2 tablespoons of batter

Large Cookie Scoop: Measures 4 tablespoons of batter

You can make all the bites the same size or you can do some one-bite cakes and some two-bites cakes. The difference is using the small cookie scoop or the medium cookie scoop. A heaping small scoop will give you something in the middle. I like the option of having some smaller bites, so I used both the small and the medium scoop.

How to make Easy Vanilla Patriotic Cake BitesHOW TO MAKE CAKE BITES

First preheat the oven to 325° F.  Coat mini muffin tins with cooking spray- note that the non-stick spray made specifically for baking works best!  This recipe makes 75-85 mini cupcakes so I ended up baking 3 1/2 batches in my mini cupcake pan that holds 24 cupcakes.

Beat the ingredients for the cupcakes in a large bowl with an electric mixer for several minutes until smooth and somewhat whipped looking.

Fill each muffin hole about 3/4 way full.  I used a heaping small cookie scoop and it worked perfectly!  Bake each pan for about 12-14 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool the pan for a few minutes, then overturn cake bites onto a wire rack.  Turn cakes right side up and let cool another 5 minutes. Then you’re ready to glaze them!

Easy Vanilla Patriotic Cake BitesINGREDIENTS FOR LEMON MINI CUPCAKE GLAZE 

To make the easy Lemon glaze, you’ll need:

–powdered sugar

–salted butter, melted: no substitutions

–1/4 cup  + 2 TBSP hot water

– vanilla extract

Easy Vanilla Patriotic Cake BitesHOW TO MAKE LEMON DROP MINI CUPCAKE GLAZE

Lay out some waxed paper so that clean-up is easier.

Whisk the glaze ingredients in a medium bowl until smooth. You’ll want the glaze to be a bit thicker than syrup so that it coats each cake bite. Feel free to add more hot water or powdered sugar until you feel like you’ve reached the right consistency.

Dip each cake bite into the glaze and set it on the wax paper. Immediately add sprinkles to the top.

If the glaze hardens a bit, stick the bowl in the microwave for 15 seconds. Repeat until all cake bites are glazed. They take just a few minutes to cool and firm up and they’re ready to serve!

Easy Patriotic Vanilla Cake Bites are simple glazed bite-sized treats that are so easy to make! Super cute & beyond tasty, these vanilla cake bites will be the hit of your 4th of July party!
Easy Vanilla Patriotic Cake Bites

Easy Vanilla Cake Bites

Easy Vanilla Cake Bites are simple glazed bite-sized treats that are so easy to make! Super cute & beyond tasty, these vanilla cake bites will be the hit of the party! 

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Course: Cake, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Vanilla Cake Bites

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 12 minutes

Total Time: 22 minutes

Servings: 40

Calories: 112kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 box white cake mix 15.25 oz box
  • 1 small box vanilla Instant pudding mix 3.4 oz box
  • 5 large egg whites
  • 1 1/4 cups sour cream or yogurt
  • 1/2 cup milk

Vanilla Glaze

  • 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/4 cup + 2 TBSP hot water
  • 2 TBSP butter melted
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • sprinkles for topping

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 325° F.  Coat mini muffin tins with cooking spray- note that the non-stick spray made specifically for baking works best!  This recipe makes 75-85 mini cupcakes so I ended up baking 3 1/2 batches in my mini cupcake pan that holds 24 cupcakes.

  • Beat the ingredients for the cupcakes in a large bowl with an electric mixer for several minutes until smooth and somewhat whipped looking.

  • Fill each muffin hole about 3/4 way full.  I used a heaping small cookie scoop and it worked perfectly! Bake each pan for about 12-14 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

  • Cool the pan for a few minutes, then overturn cake bites onto a wire rack.  Turn cakes right side up and let cool another 5 minutes. Then you’re ready to glaze them!

  • Lay out some waxed paper so that clean-up is easier. Whisk the glaze ingredients in a medium bowl until smooth. You’ll want the glaze to be a bit thicker than syrup so that it coats each cake bite. Feel free to add more hot water or powdered sugar until you feel like you’ve reached the right consistency.

  • Dip each cake bite into the glaze and set it on the wax paper. Immediately add sprinkles to the top.

  • If the glaze hardens a bit, stick the bowl in the microwave for 15 seconds. Repeat until all cake bites are glazed. They take just a few minutes to cool and firm up and they’re ready to serve!

Notes

Recipe yields about 75-80 cupcake bites.  You can make all the bites the same size or you can do some one-bite cakes and some two-bites cakes. The difference is using the small cookie scoop or the medium cookie scoop. A heaping small scoop will give you something in the middle. I like the option of having some smaller bites.

Nutrition

Serving: 2g | Calories: 112kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 6mg | Sodium: 108mg | Potassium: 28mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 67IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 40mg | Iron: 1mg

Easy Vanilla Patriotic Cake Bites

CAN YOU FREEZE LEMON DROP MINI CUPCAKES?

I recommend you freeze the mini cupcakes baked, but not dipped in the glaze. Store the cupcakes in an airtight container or freezer bags for up to  3 months in the freezer. Once you’re ready to serve them, let them thaw on the countertop, then proceed with the instructions for making the glaze and dipping the cupcakes.

Easy Patriotic Vanilla Cake Bites are simple glazed bite-sized treats that are so easy to make! Super cute & beyond tasty, these vanilla cake bites will be the hit of your 4th of July party!

Easy Patriotic Vanilla Cake Bites are simple glazed bite-sized treats that are so easy to make! Super cute & beyond tasty, these vanilla cake bites will be the hit of your 4th of July party!

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