Bake A Cake
From 22566 15 years agoIngredients
- Cake: shopping list
- 3 Cups flour,sifted shopping list
- 3 teaspoons baking powder shopping list
- 1 Cup butter shopping list
- 2 Cups sugar shopping list
- 5 Farm Fresh eggs,separated shopping list
- 1 Cup milk shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla shopping list
- 1 Cup currants shopping list
- 1 Cup raisins shopping list
- 2 Tablespoons flour shopping list
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg shopping list
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves shopping list
- 1 teaspoon cocoa shopping list
- Filling: shopping list
- 1/4 Cup cornstarch shopping list
- 1 Cup sugar shopping list
- 2 Cups orange juice,strained shopping list
- juice of 1 lemon shopping list
- Grated rind of 1 orange shopping list
- 1/2 Cup raisins shopping list
- 1 Package coconut,flaked shopping list
- 2 Tablespoons butter shopping list
- Glaze: shopping list
- 3 Cups confectioners' sugar shopping list
- 2 Tablespoons lemon juice shopping list
- 2 Tablespoons-plus 1 teaspoon water shopping list
- Few Drops of cooking oil shopping list
How to make it
- Cake:
- Divide the flour into two portions and sift baking powder with one.
- Cream the butter and sugar until lilght.
- Beat egg yolks well and mix in.
- Add the flour and milk alternately,beginning with plain flour and ending with flour and baking powder mixture.
- Add vanilla, and finally fold in the egg whites which have been beaten until soft peaks form.
- Prepare (2) 9" round cake pans by lining them with greased waxed paper and dusting them with flour.
- Pour 2/3 of the batter into one pan.
- Mix currants and raisins in the 2 tablespoons of flour,mixed with the spices and cocoa.
- Mix into remaining batter.
- Pour into the second pan.
- Bake in a hot oven,at 375 degrees for about 50 minutes or until cakes are golden and spring back when touched.
- Remove from oven and let stand 5 minutes,then turn from pans onto cooling racks.Cool
- Filling:
- Mix the cornstarch and sugar in saucepan.
- Add juices,rind and raisins and cook,stirring constantly,for about 7 minutes,or until mixture thickens.
- Remove from heat and add coconut and butter,Cool.
- Glaze:
- Mix the ingredients thoroughly,add a bit more water if need be.
- To assemble the cake:
- Split each layer in half,using a very thin ,sharp knife.
- Place a fruit spice layer,cut side up,on a plate.
- Spread with 1/3 of the filling.
- Top with a plain layer,cut side down,more filling, and then another fruit spice layer,cut side up.
- Spread with remaining fillling and top with the last plain cake layer,cut side down.
- Drop spoonful of glaze over the top of the cake,letting it run unevenly down the sides.Let it dry.Then repeat until all glaze is used.
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