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Cake, Southern Spanish

Source of Recipe

General Foods Corporation-1933


List of Ingredients


1 3/4 C sifted Swans Down cake flour
1 1/2 tsp Calumet baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 C butter
1 C sugar
2 egg yolks, well beaten
1/2 C milk
2 egg whites, stiffly beaten



Recipe

Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Sift together three times.

Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, and beat well. Then add flour, alternately with milk, a small amount at a time. Mix thoroughly after each addition. Fold in egg whites.

Bake in two greased 8 inch layer cake pans in moderate oven (375 degrees F.) 25 minutes.

Coffee Frosting

4 T butter
2 C sifted confectioners sugar
2 T strong coffee (about)
dash salt

Cream butter, add part of sugar gradually, blending after each addition. Add remaining sugar, alternately with coffee, until of right consistency to spread. Beat after each addition until smooth. Add salt. Makes enough to cover an 8x8x2 inch cake, or tops of two 9 inch layer cakes.