Texas Tornado Cake
Texas Tornado Cake
Texas Tornado Cake is spectacular. What a delicious and easy sheet cake to make! The cake is made with a can of fruit cocktail in the batter, then before you bake the cake you sprinkle a streusel topping with nuts over the top. After the cake comes out of the oven you add a boiled coconut topping and pour it on the cake while hot. Oh, soooo scrumptious!
TEXAS TORNADO CAKE
(Recipe from Sandy Weikel, when we attended First Baptist Church Indian Rocks, Largo, FL)
Texas Tornado Cake
This delicious cake is made with fruit cocktail in the batter & has a streusel-nut topping. A boiled coconut topping is poured over the cake while hot. Quick, easy, economical.
Course Cakes and Cheesecakes
Cuisine American
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Servings
INGREDIENTS
CAKE:
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups Gold Medal UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour bleached flour toughens baked goods
- 1 cup chopped nuts
- 2 cups fruit cocktail with syrup 16-oz. can
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 cup brown sugar packed
BOILED COCONUT ICING:
- 1 stick unsalted butter (1/2 cup)
- 1 cup coconut
- 3/4 cup brown sugar packed
- 1/2 cup evaporated milk or half and half
INSTRUCTIONS
CAKE:
- Mix regular sugar, eggs, fruit cocktail, baking soda and flour.
- Pour into greased and floured 9x13” pan or baking dish.
- Combine brown sugar and nuts; sprinkle over batter.
- Bake at 325° for 40 minutes.
- Spread icing on cake while hot.
BOILED COCONUT ICING:
- Combine icing ingredients in saucepan and boil for 2 minutes.
- Spoon over cake while hot.
- Let cool; cut into squares.
RECIPE NOTES
NOTE: Sweetened condensed milk is NOT the same as evaporated milk. They are two very different products.
NOTE: You can use evaporated milk, half-and-half or heavy whipping cream when making the icing. Because there has been some confusion in the notes, let me be clear, this recipe does not use sweetened condensed milk in either the cake or the icing.
© CAN’T STAY OUT OF THE KITCHEN
Top with a large scoop of vanilla ice cream and you are good to go! I was giving this cake to someone else or I would have stopped and done just that!
