4 Milky Way candy bars (see note below)
1 cup butter
1 cup chopped pecans
2 cups sugar
1 1/4 cups buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking soda
4 eggs
2 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
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Melt the candy bars, butter and nuts over low heat, set aside to cool. Stir together, the sugar, buttermilk, baking soda, eggs, flour and vanilla, then beat with electric mixer for 2 minutes. Fold in the melted candy mixture. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan. Bake at 350 for one hour.
1 cup chopped pecans
2 cups sugar
1 1/4 cups buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking soda
4 eggs
2 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
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Melt the candy bars, butter and nuts over low heat, set aside to cool. Stir together, the sugar, buttermilk, baking soda, eggs, flour and vanilla, then beat with electric mixer for 2 minutes. Fold in the melted candy mixture. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan. Bake at 350 for one hour.
FUDGE FROSTING
2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup butter
6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 of a 7-ounce jar marshmallow cream
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Cook sugar, milk and butter to soft ball stage. Remove from heat. Beat in chocolate chips and marshmallow cream until smooth. Pour QUICKLY over completely cooled cake because this will start to set up as soon as it begins to cool.
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NOTE: The original recipe called for 4 five cent Milky Way candy bars, so you know how old this recipe is. I used four 2.05 ounce bars but they were more like 69 cents, ha!!
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NOTE: I baked this in an angel food cake pan (in my standard electric oven) and it took exactly an hour.
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NOTE: Work quickly when frosting this cake because the fudge frosting hardens fairly quickly. The recipe says to pour over the cake and let it drizzle down the edges, but I had enough time to cover the sides. It makes a LOT of frosting and Joan told me she just uses the excess frosting to fill up the hole in the middle of the cake.
1/2 cup butter
6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 of a 7-ounce jar marshmallow cream
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Cook sugar, milk and butter to soft ball stage. Remove from heat. Beat in chocolate chips and marshmallow cream until smooth. Pour QUICKLY over completely cooled cake because this will start to set up as soon as it begins to cool.
.
NOTE: The original recipe called for 4 five cent Milky Way candy bars, so you know how old this recipe is. I used four 2.05 ounce bars but they were more like 69 cents, ha!!
.
NOTE: I baked this in an angel food cake pan (in my standard electric oven) and it took exactly an hour.
.
NOTE: Work quickly when frosting this cake because the fudge frosting hardens fairly quickly. The recipe says to pour over the cake and let it drizzle down the edges, but I had enough time to cover the sides. It makes a LOT of frosting and Joan told me she just uses the excess frosting to fill up the hole in the middle of the cake.
