Most People Make Caramel Cake Wrong! Mama's Old Georgia Secrets So the Icing Never Goes Grainy

Your caramel icing looks perfect in the pot, then it sets up on the cake and every bite crunches like sand. My mama in Macon, Georgia, baked caramel cake once a year, at Christmas, and hers never went grainy. Not one time. It came down to one thing she refused to do at the very moment everybody else wanted to do it. 📖 Get all 54 of Mama's recipes: https://berniceskitchen.com/?utm_sour... Chapters: 00:00 Why caramel icing goes grainy 00:31 Mama's Christmas cake 01:48 Mistake #3: Grit in the pot 03:38 The little paper book from 1942 04:47 Mistake #2: Burning the sugar (or yourself) 05:38 The part that can hurt you 07:05 My first caramel cake, Christmas 1978 08:12 Mama's caramel cake, start to finish 10:23 Mistake #1: Mama's one sentence 11:46 The next Christmas 12:07 Mama's cookbook 12:58 The whole method in one breath You need: 3 cups flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 3/4 tsp salt, 2 sticks butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 1 cup buttermilk, 2 tsp vanilla. Icing: 3 cups sugar, 1 can evaporated milk, 1 stick butter, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 1/2 tsp vanilla. Full method in the pinned comment. #CaramelCake #SoulFood #BerniceCooks