Friday, October 2, 2009

Pop's B'day cake: Coconut with cherries on top!

Nana has made this cake for Pop's birthday for as long as I can remember!!
The seven minute frosting is a bit tricky, but you can bet the cake is absolutely the best white cake recipe you'll EVER find! Below, in Nana's own words,
THE RECIPE!
Pop's birthday cake is from a Betty Crocker cook book I (Nana) received as a wedding gift I think from Aunt Betty but I could be wrong about that . Anyway it has to be over 57 years old.
(PS... Aunt Bette gave me the revised version of the same cookbook as her wedding gift to me and Troy... why change a good thing?)
Rich Silver Cake
2 9" layers 350 degrees ( I bake at 325 because my ovens are convection ovens) 30 to 35 minutes I grease and flour and line the pans with wax paper.
cream together until fluffy: 1 cup soft shortening
2 cups sugar
sift together : 3 cups sifted SOFTASILK flour
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
stir in alternately with : 1 1/3 "thin" milk ( now that we
have low fat milk I use 2%
2 tsp almond flavoring ( the recipe
calls for vanilla but we prefer
almond
fold in : 6 egg whites stiffly beaten
I chill these layers in the refrigerator over night and they will be easier to work with! This is a very tender cake. This will make a 9" cake , when I want to do a 12" I half again the recipe.