Orange cream cake
12 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | cups | Cake flour, sifted |
| 2 | teaspoons | Baking powder |
| ½ | cup | Butter |
| 1 | cup | Sugar; sifted |
| ⅔ | cup | Milk |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| 3 | Egg white; stiffly beaten | |
| *=* ORANGE FILLING* | ||
| 3 | tablespoons | Cake flour |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
| 1 | Orange rind; grated | |
| ½ | cup | Orange juice |
| 3 | tablespoons | Lemon juice |
| ¼ | cup | ;Water |
| 1 | Egg; slightly beaten | |
| 2 | teaspoons | Butter |
| *=* SEVEN MINUTE FROSTING* | ||
| 2 | Egg white; unbeaten | |
| 1½ | cup | Sugar |
| 5 | tablespoons | ;Water, cold |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| 2 | Marshmallow; cut in eighths | |
| 1 | teaspoon | Corn syrup, light |
Directions
Servings: 12
*=* CAKE* Cake: Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, and sift together three times. Cream shortening thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add flour, alternately with milk, a small amount at a time. Beat after each addition until smooth. Add vanilla. Fold in egg whites. Bake in two greased 9" layer pans in a 375 F. oven 25 to 30 minutes. Put layers together with Orange Filling and cover top and sides of cake with Seven Minute Frosting. Decorate with mandarin orange sections. Filling: Combine ingredients in order given. Cook in a double boiler ten minutes, stirring constantly. Cool. Frosting: Put egg whites, sugar, water, corn syrup, and salt in top of double boiler and mix thoroughly.
Place over rapidly boiling water and beat constantly with a rotary egg beater until the mixture will hold a peak (about seven minutes).
Remove from hot water, add vanilla and marshmallows and beat until cool and thick enough to spread.
New Cake Secrets, 1931 from *Cakes Men Like by Benjamin Darling