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    MARDI GRAS KING CAKE

    Source of Recipe

    cousin in New Orleans

    List of Ingredients

    3 1/2 cups cake flour
    1 1/2 cups sugar
    1 cup water
    2/3 cup vegetable oil
    1/3 cup nonfat dry milk
    3 teaspoons baking powder
    1 teaspoon vanilla
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    8 egg whites
    Light Lemon Glaze (recipe follows)
    Colored sugar crystals (purple, green and gold)
    Small 1-inch plastic baby doll



    Recipe


    Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease and flour a 10-inch
    tube pan. Sift flour before measuring and combine with
    sugar, water, oil, dry milk, baking powder, vanilla, and
    salt in a bowl. Mix until smooth. Whip the egg whites until stiff. Fold whipped egg whites into the batter until evenly blended. Spoon batter into the prepared pan. Bake 40 to 50 minutes until cake bounces back when gently touched in the center. Insert doll in cake before inverting cake out of pan. Turn out of pan onto cake rack; cool thoroughly. Drizzle with Light Lemon Glaze and decorate in 2-inch sections of purple, green and gold sugar crystals.

    * LIGHT LEMON GLAZE
    Mix 1 cup sifted powdered sugar with 1 tablespoon fresh
    lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind, a dash of salt,
    and 2 to 3 tablespoons hot water until mixture is smooth and
    can be drizzled onto the cake.

    Yield: Makes one 10-inch tube cake, approx 20 slices

 

 

 


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