Cake and Fluffy Icing
A very old vintage handwritten recipe card for a yellow cake with fluffy icing. Bake this classic cake for your next dinner or special occasion.
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Ingredients
Cake
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2 cups flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon
- Fluffy Cake Icing
Fluffy Cake Icing
- 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup water
- 2 egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
Method
Cake
- Cream butter, add sugar gradually, beat egg yolks add to butter and sugar add flour, baking powder, and milk alternately, beat hard; add flavoring then fold in beaten egg whites. Bake in 2 loaves in moderate oven twenty to thirty minutes.
Icing
- Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a hair when dropped from spoon. Pour syrup slowly in stiffly beaten egg whites beating constantly until stiff enough to spread. Add flavor