*Note: In place of the flour, baking powder, and salt I used 1 cup of self-rising flour and it was even quicker and worked beautifully.īutter and lightly flour an 8-inch square cake pan or spray with cooking spray.īeat the eggs with the vanilla until they have thickened slightly. If it was just slightly burnt it was actually kind of good in the way that slightly burnt roast marshmallows are we ate it that way a lot.' That was our signal to keep our heads down and stay out of the kitchen, so I don’t know if she started the cake all over again or was able to scrape the topping off and just re-make that part. “Hell’s bells!” and “Damnation!” drifted upstairs where Suzie and I were in our room playing with our Tammy dolls. I heard lots of colorful language from the kitchen since Mom often passed that minute between toasted and burnt. But speaking of the topping, although it’s quick and easy, it must be watched carefully once you put it under the broiler as it only takes a minute or two to achieve the desired toastiness. Something about broiling the topping transforms the coconut and makes it less coconutty, somehow. My mother made it several times a month and we all liked it, even though we’re not big coconut fans. Lazy daisy cake is what they call a “hot milk cake” and can be mixed up and in the oven in about ten minutes. Dessert was something that we ate with a spoon or a dessert fork, and at least one purpose it served was to teach my sister and me where to put the dessert fork when we were setting the table, and all three of us children what silverware to use and when (“Use your silverware from the outside in, kids!”). And I’m not talking about a couple of cookies on a plate, either.

The blogger (see link below) who shared this recipe introduced it by writing, 'I haven’t made this cake in years, but I grew up on it, back in the days when housewives served desserts after every dinner. I remember it as being one of my mother's standby desserts when I was a child in the 1950's. G'ma this recipe for a hot milk cake isn't from a 4-H booklet, but check it out, it may be similar.

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