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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