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Watkins Five Flavor Cake with Six-Flavor Glaze..

Watkins Five Flavor Cake

Serves: 12
Ingredients:
1 cup/250 ml (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup/125 ml vegetable shortening
3 cups/750 ml sugar
5 eggs, beaten until lemon-colored
3 cups/750 ml all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Baking Powder
1 cup/250 ml milk
1 tsp/5 ml Watkins Coconut Flavor
1 tsp/S ml Watkins Rum Extract
1 tsp/5 ml Watkins Butter Flavor
1 tsp/5 ml Watkins Lemon Extract
1 tsp/5 ml Watkins Vanilla Extract

Six-Flavor Glaze (recipe follows)

Cream together the butter, shortening, and sugar in large mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs; beat until smooth. In small bowl, combine flour and Baking Powder; mix well and set aside. Combine milk and flavorings. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Spoon mixture into a greased 10 inch/25-cm tube (angel food cake) pan. Bake at 325°F/165°C for 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 hours or until cake tests done. Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes. Turn cake out of pan onto wire rack, invert again. Place waxed paper under rack to catch glaze drippings. Slowly spoon glaze onto top of hot cake and let glaze drizzle down sides of cake. Let cool completely.

Six-Flavor Glaze
1/2 cup/125 ml sugar
1/4 cup/60 ml water
1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Coconut Flavor
1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Rum Extract
1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Butter Flavor
1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Lemon Extract
1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Vanilla Extract
1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Almond Extract
Combine all ingredients in heavy saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Makes 12 servings.

MAPLE PECAN PIE Recipe

This decadent pie is the perfect ending to any holiday meal. Our Maple Pecan Pie features Watkins Maple Extract and Original Double-Strength Baking Vanilla .

Maple Pecan Pie Recipe – Image by sinapy from Pixabay

Ingredients
Pastry
1 cup/250 mL all-purpose flour
1/3 cup plus 1 tbsp/100 mL shortening
1/8 tsp/0.6 mL salt
1/3 cup/80 mL cold water
1/2 tsp/2.5 mL Original (Double-Strength) Baking Vanilla

Filling
3/4 cup/180 mL Homemade Maple Syrup (see recipe below)
1/4 cup/60 mL light corn syrup
2/3 cup/160 mL sugar
1/3 cup/80 mL melted butter
3 eggs
1/2 tsp/2.5 mL salt
1 cup/250 mL chopped pecans

Homemade Maple Syrup

1 cup/250 mL packed brown sugar
1 cup/250 mL granulated sugar
1 cup/250 mL water
1/8 tsp/0.6 mL salt
1/2 tsp/2.5 mL Watkins Maple Extract 

Chocolate Drizzel

1 tbsp/15 mL Cocoa
1 tbsp/15 mL powdered sugar
1 tbsp/15 mL shortening

Directions

Pastry
Mix flour, salt and shortening. Stir extract into water; add to flour mixture. Mix until dough forms a ball. Roll dough on floured surface. Put pastry into a 9-inch/23-cm pie pan. Flute edges.

Filling

Heat oven to 350°/180° C. Beat the syrups, sugar, butter, egg and salt in bowl with mixer until smooth. Stir in pecans. Pour into pastry-lined pie pan. Cover edge of crust with foil to prevent excessive browning. Remove during last 15 minutes of baking. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes or until set. Cool 15 minutes. Drizzle Chocolate Icing (below) over the top.

Homemade Maple Syrup

Combine sugars, water and salt in saucepan. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat and add the maple extract. Cool.

Chocolate Icing

Melt shortening in microwave. Stir in cocoa and sugar until smooth. Cool until it thickens. Drizzle over top of pie.

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