Happy Easter 2026

I have a ton of cake recipes on this blog. They are only on here so I can find them easily or share with family members. It is much easier to put the name in the search box than to go into my disorganized recipe drawer and look. Most are written on a piece of an envelope or a sheet of stationery paper. My husband organized all my recipes at one point, but I am a creature of habit. I never caught onto his "system". I didn't let him throw away the originals and I still have them. Once a year he also organized the freezer but I would always forget to check off something when I used it. He is gone now and when I look at his binders of recipes, I think of how good he was at doing it and I should have tried harder. 

For Easter this year I made the usual Carrot Cake and a Chocolate Cake. 

The Carrot Cake is on the blog from December of 2014. https://www.thecabincountess.com/search?q=carrot+cake I also have the recipe from my mom written on a piece of typing paper.  Between the blog, the recipe written in red ink on stained paper and Mike's binder, I should be able to find it easily.

I also made a Chocolate Cake. I have some chocolate cakes on this blog too, but most are made by doctoring up a cake mix. I didn't have a cake mix so I made this one from scratch. It is almost as easy so that wasn't a problem. 

 I believe it was from Allrecipes.com. I googled several but this is the one I settled on. It took normal ingredients that I already had on hand.

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

2 cups white sugar

1 3/4  cups all purpose flour

3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 1/2 t. baking powder

1 1/2 t. baking soda

1 t. salt

2 large eggs

1 cup milk

1/2 cup oil (I used avocado oil)

2 t. vanilla

1 cup boiling water

Directions:

1. Stir sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl.

2. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; mix for 2 minutes on medium speed with an electric mixer.

3. Stir in the boiling water. The batter will be thin.

4. Pour into the cake pan.

5. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 30 to 35 minutes.. 

Cool completely and frost with icing of your choice.

I made a Chocolate Butter cream frosting. 

Ingredients:

1 cup butter

1/2 cup cocoa powder

3 1/2 cups powdered sugar

2 t. vanilla

About 2-3 T. milk 

Mix together and add the milk gradually until its the consistency you like.

I didn't want to go to the store for this recipe but I didn't have quite enough powdered sugar for the frosting. Since I sometimes make my own, I made a batch.

Powdered sugar is easy to make. It only takes two ingredients. White sugar and cornstarch. I mixed two cups of sugar and two tablespoons of cornstarch in a high speed blender. It only takes 30 seconds until it's finished. 2 cups of sugar equals about 3 1/2 to 4 cups of powdered sugar. No need to make a trip to the grocery store.

We had a very nice day today. The family was together and we had a very good meal. As old as they are my grandchildren had fun doing the traditional egg hunt without eggs. The Easter bunny hides bottles of Sprecher soda for them to find. Then they trade for their favorite flavor. They are big into traditions and this is one of them.