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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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