Southern Cake Recipe?

[3113]

My husband's late mother was from Arkansas and she used to make a type of cake that he loved. He has no idea what the recipe was; I'd like to recreate it if I can...if there is some way to find out exactly what kind of cake it was.

The suspected ingredients include:
flour
eggs
sugar
vanilla
Karo syrup

The cake looked a little like cornbread when baked up, was pale yellow on the inside, sweet and dense rather than fluffy (or so my husband remembers it).

If this seems at all familiar to anyone...please post the recipe. I'll bake it up and find out if it's the one. Many thanks!

 

[zeb1094]

My husband's late mother was from Arkansas and she used to make a type of cake that he loved. He has no idea what the recipe was; I'd like to recreate it if I can...if there is some way to find out exactly what kind of cake it was.

The suspected ingredients include:
flour
eggs
sugar
vanilla
Karo syrup

The cake looked a little like cornbread when baked up, was pale yellow on the inside, sweet and dense rather than fluffy (or so my husband remembers it).

If this seems at all familiar to anyone...please post the recipe. I'll bake it up and find out if it's the one. Many thanks!

Could it be a Pound Cake!

 

[3113]

Could it be a Pound Cake!

One of the first things I thought of, but a regular pound cake doesn't use Karo syrup--and didn't pass the taste test when I bought some and gave it to him. So it MIGHT be a type of pound cake, but not the usual.

 

[English Lady]

go to www.allrecipes.com and use the ingredient search, look just in cakes and then sift through all your results and you might just come across a recipe that will work

 

[TxRad]

Some of the old country recipies from that area used karo in place of the sugar which gives the cake the heavier denser feel and taste....

If any of his mothers family is still alive you might check with them... recipie trading is a southern thing...