Today's Case:
Rich's Bakeshop Chocolate Icing
Re: Rich's Bakeshop yellow cake icing.
From: Leisa
To: Phaedrus
Date: 9/29/2024, 3:44 PM
On 9/29/2024 1:09 PM, Leisa wrote:
When I was a child my Mother always bought cakes from Rich's Department
Store bakery.
I loved the white/yellow? cake with chocolate icing! I've searched numerous
times & haven't been able to find a recipe for the chocolate icing. It was a firm
icing, you could almost peel it off the cake. Do you by any chance have the recipe?
Thank you!
Leisa
Hello Leisa,
I have a Rich's specific page here: Rich's Department Store
I was not able to find a recipe for Rich's chocolate icing. I have a recipe for "Rich's Bakeshop Icing" here: 05-21-2007
It's probably a copycat and it's vanilla, not chocolate, but you could perhaps convert it. I cannot verify that it is the same icing that was on their yellow cake and birthday cakes.
I was told by a Rich's Bakeshop holiday manager that many, if not all, of Rich's cakes were were baked by Danco Bakery Distributors and delivered frozen to the individual stores. That makes it difficult to find any actual recipes for the cakes Rich's sold.
I found Rich's yellow cake icing described as being "royal icing" on a message board and also as like "Crisco decorator icing." I could not verify that elsewhere.
Phaed
