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Golden Layer Cake Recipe


Golden Layer Cake Recipe
Green Box Recipe by Mom.

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Ingredients
  • CAKE:
  • ½ cup shortening
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon lemon extract (OR: 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel)
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups sifted cake flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • LEMON FILLING:
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons cornstarch
  • ¾ cup water
  • 1 slightly beaten egg yolk
  • 3 Tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
  • 1 Tablespoon butter or margarine
  • SEVEN MINUTE FROSTING:
  • 2 unbeaten egg whites
  • 1½ cups sugar
  • 2 teaspoons light corn syrup (or 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 1/3 cup cold water
  • Dash salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • LEMON COCONUT:
  • 1 Tablespoon frozen lemonade concentrate (or a bit of grated lemon peel)
  • 3½ ounce can flaked coconut
  • Yellow food coloring

Directions
  1. CAKE: Stir in shortening to soften. Gradually add sugar and cream until light and fluffy. Add extracts. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each. Sift together dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour. Beat after each addition. Bake in 2 paper-lined 8 x 1½-inch round pans in moderate oven at 350° F for about 30 minutes. Cool.
  2. LEMON FILLING: In saucepan mix sugar, cornstarch and dash salt; add water, egg yolk and lemon juice; cook over medium heat till thick, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; add lemon peel and butter. Cool. Makes 1¼ cups.
  3. SEVEN MINUTE FROSTING: Place all ingredients except vanilla in top of double boiler (not over heat); beat 1 minute with electronic or rotary beater to blend. Place over boiling water and cook, beating constantly, till frosting forms stiff peaks, about 7 minutes (don't overcook). Remove from boiling water. pour into mixing bowl, if you wish. Add vanilla extract, beat till of spreading consistency, about 2 minutes. Frost tops and sides of two 8- or 9-inch layers.
  4. LEMON COCONUT: In jar, mix together lemon concentrate and a few drops of yellow food coloring. Add coconut. Cover and shake till coconut is colored. Dry on paper towels.
  5. Put cooled layers together with Lemon Filling; frost with Seven Minute Frosting. Cover with Lemon Coconut.

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