Sunday, July 01, 2007

RECIPE of the Day - 7/01/2007


Sometimes I just want a white cake with white icing. This cake is really special, though, with its lemon filling; it adds just the right amount of tartness for that perfect blend of sweet and sour.





Delicate White Cake with Lemon Filling

White Cake:
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup water
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 egg whites, stiffly beaten

Cream shortening; add sugar gradually and cream thoroughly. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together and add to sugar mixture alternately with the milk and water mixed. Add vanilla extract and fold in egg whites. Pour into 2 well-greased and floured 8-inch cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 to 35 minutes. Cool. Remove from pans.

Lemon Filling:
5 egg yolks
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup lemon juice
2 tablespoons grated lemon rind
Confectioners sugar

Beat egg yolks and add remaining ingredients. Place mixture in top of double boiler and cook over hot water until thick. Let filling cool, then spread between cake layers. Dust cake with confectioners sugar or frost with White Frosting.

White Frosting

1/2 C. unsalted butter, softened
3 C. powdered sugar, triple sifted
1 t. vanilla
2 to 3 T. cream

Beat butter at medium-high speed until creamy. Gradually beat in sugar until smooth. Beat in vanilla and 2 T. cream, adding additional cream if necessary to make of good spreading consistency.

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