This recipe was one of my childhood favourites. It only got made by request when one of my family members had a birthday. Lucky for me, it was a favourite for some of my siblings so I didn’t have to wait until my birthday rolled around to enjoy it. Even my grandparents liked it.
Lucky for me, I was visiting my parents and it is was my eldest brother’s birthday on Monday so my mom made him a Bachelor Cake.
At our house we called it Stella’s cake. I assume it was because my mom’s good friend Stella introduced her to the recipe.
Ingredients
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp cocoa
3 Tbsp very strong coffee
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup Crisco vegetable shortening
1 box of graham crackers
Directions
Beat together the shortening and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time. Add cocoa, vanilla and coffee. Beat for a few minutes until mixture becomes light and beige in colour.
You can use a 9×9 or 7×11 pan. If you doubled the recipe, you could use a 9×13 pan.
You start with the graham crackers then spread with the icing. You keep layering until you run out of space, ending with the icing.
Put the cake, covered in plastic wrap, in the fridge for a minimum of 24 hours to soften.
There were only four of us but we almost finished off the cake made in the 11×7 pan.
After so many years of not tasting the cake, it is still one of my favourites. That sweet icing with a slight coffee flavour softens the graham crackers just perfectly.
Sounds delicious