10 Layer Smith Island Cake Frosting 2 sticks butter 2-12 oz. cans evaporated milk 8 heaping Tablespoons unsweetened Cocoa 2 lbs. confectioners Sugar * Melt butter. Stir in evaporated milk (off heat). * Whisk in Cocoa until smooth, return to heat and cook for approximately 10 minutes. DO NOT BOIL or Scorch. * Remove from heat and whisk in confectioners sugar slowly. * Cook slowly until thickened and will stick to back of a spoon or to the whisk (It will form a ribbon when you drizzle a spoonful onto mixture while cooking). * Approx time: 45 minutes. Cake 2 cups sugar 2 sticks unsalted butter, cut into chunks 5 - eggs 3 - cups flour 1/4 - teaspoon salt heaping teaspoon baking powder 1 cup evaporated milk 2 teaspoons vanilla 1/2 cup water Cream together sugar and butter. Add eggs one at a time and beat until smooth. Sift together flour, salt, and baking powder. Mix into egg mixture one cup at a time. With mixer running, slowly pour in the evaporated milk, then the vanilla and water. Mix just until uniform. Put three serving spoonsful of batter in each of ten 9-inch lightly greased pans, using the back of the spoon to spread evenly. Bake three layers at a time on the middle rack of the oven at 350 degrees for 8 minutes. A layer is done when you hold it near your ear and you don't hear it sizzle. Start making the icing when the first layer goes in the oven. Let the layers cool a couple of minutes in the pans. Put the cake together as the layers are finished. Run a spatula around the edge oft he pan and ease the layer out of the pan. Don't worry if it tears; no one will notice when the cake is finished. Use two or three serving spoonsful of icing between each layer. Cover the top and sides of the cake with the rest of the icing. Push icing that runs onto the plate back onto the cake. To ice the cake * Take one slightly cooled layer and spread with cooled frosting. Add crushed candy randomly on layer. (Reese cups, snickers, milky ways, or whatever your favorite is—candy is optional as well ) * Add next layers, frosting, candy, and repeat process till the 10th layer. * Do not add candy to final layer. * Finish frosting the cake and sides. May have to wait to ice top and sides until the icing cools. ! Back To Cakes and Bakery Delights Recipes Feel Free To Email Me Anytime Back To The Index Page