Cake Recipes for Your Next Backyard

Easy Upside Down Cake
Ingredients: Pineapple Slices, butter or margarine, brown sugar, maraschino cherries, and yellow or pineapple-flavored cake mix.

Hummingbird Cake
Friends will want the recipe.  To make this tasty dessert, you use flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, bananas, chopped nuts, cinnamon, vegetable oil, eggs, and crushed pineapple.

Better Than Pumpkin Pie Cake
Ingredients: Yellow Cake Mix, stick butter or margarine, eggs, can (29-ounces) pumpkin, can (5 ounces) evaporated milk, brown sugar, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Topping: Yellow Cake Mix reserved, stick butter or margarine, sugar, and mixed nuts.

Applesauce Cake
Ingredients: all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, butter, peanut butter, sugar, eggs, and applesauce.

Hawaiian Upside-Down Cake
This fun dessert calls for butter,  brown sugar, Pineapple Slices, maraschino cherries, granulated sugar, eggs, grated lemon peel, lemon juice, vanilla extract, all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt, and sour cream.

Strawberry Buttermilk Shortcakes
Ingredients: Biscuits - refrigerated buttermilk biscuits, butter or margarine, and sugar. Strawberry Mixture - fresh strawberries, and sugar. Whipped Cream - whipping cream, sugar, and vanilla, if desired.

Mrs. White’s Buttermilk Pound Cake
Ingredients: sugar, shortening, butter, eggs, vanilla, baking soda, salt, flour, buttermilk, and pecans.

Banana - Almond Fudge Cake
Ingredients: medium bananas, sugar, butter, eggs, amaretto liqueur or almond extract, all-purpose flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, chopped almonds, square semi-sweet chocolate.

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