Simple and delicious, this Vanilla Skillet Cake with Fudge Frosting is perfect for surprise guests, or as an uncomplicated dessert for your usual gang!
The recipe for this cake, kicks up a vanilla box cake into a delicious skillet cake, you’ll make again and again and with the recent flour shortage people have asked me for an updated box mix idea,
but let’s get something straight,
make homemade fudge frosting!!!
it tastes so much better than store-bought.
This fudge frosting will be the hit of this cake, whether it’s for every day celebrating, birthdays a fun you’re doing great cake, or simply make one to bring to someone you’re thinking of. No one in their right mind would turn down CAKE! right?!?
Cakes date to ancient times and were quite different from what we eat today. They were more like a sweet bread made with honey. The precursors of modern cakes as we know them were first baked in Europe in the mid-17th century. Skillet cakes are an evolution of those, one can almost envision the early American pioneers traveling with their multipurpose skillets and making do with what they had to make a sweet treat. Is that how it came about? Who knows? What is certain is the ease of making a skillet cake, and the flavors of this one will knock your socks off.
Fudge Frosting is the star of this cake, however, if you aren’t a chocolate fan, I have plenty of other icing recipes,
such as this versatile
Before we walk through this, a couple of notes:
- This recipe is flexible, if you don’t have a cast-iron skillet, you can easily bake your cake in a Bundt pan, a 13×9 pan, or two 8” pans. You’ll just want to adjust baking times accordingly.
- You don’t want to store your cake in the cast iron pan, as the food could interact with it, causing it to hold on to flavors. Simply cut your cake and either place some plastic wrap on the cut area of cake or use slices of bread like this.
- This cake is mixed right in the pan, so no need for extra bowls! Your dishwashing hands will thank you.
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