Chapter 4
Section 4 of 10 Cakes Husbands Like Best from Spry's Recipe Roundup. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. 10 Cakes Husbands Like Best by Lever Brothers Company.
Bonnie Butterscotch Cake. Triple Tier Party Cake. Bonnie Butterscotch Cake. Oven temperature 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Moderately hot.
Baking time 25 to 35 minutes. Yield 2 round 9 inch layers. Mix 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar, 1 fourth cup butter or margarine, 1 fourth cup milk in saucepan. Place on low heat and bring to boil, stirring constantly.
Boil gently until a small amount of mixture forms a hard ball in cold water, 250 degrees Fahrenheit, stirring often. Remove from heat. Stir in gradually 1 and 1 fourth cups scalded milk. Cool.
Sift 2 and 3 fourth cups sifted cake flour. 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar, 3 and 1 half teaspoons double acting baking powder, 3 fourth teaspoon salt into mixing bowl. Add 2 third cup homogenized spray, 3 fourth of the cooled butterscotch mixture, 1 unbeaten egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Beat 250 strokes, 2 and 1 half minutes by hand or on mixer at low speed. In a great bowl and spoon or beater, add remaining butterscotch mixture, 2 unbeaten eggs. Beat 250 strokes. Pour into 2 round 9 inch spray coated layer pans, 1 and 1 half inch deep. Bake until cake test's done.
Cool and remove from pans. Spread butterscotch frosting between layers. Sprinkle with 1 fourth cup chopped pecans. Spread remaining frosting on sides and top. Decorate with pecan halves.
Triple tier party cake. Oven temperature 375 degrees Fahrenheit, moderately hot. Baking time 22 to 27 minutes. Yield 3 9 inch round layers. Sift 2 and 3 fourth cups sifted cake flour, 1 and 3 fourth cups sugar, 2 teaspoons double
acting baking powder, 1 and 1 half teaspoon salt into mixing bowl. Add 1 cup homogenized spray, 3 fourth cup milk, 1 teaspoon almond extract, 1 teaspoon orange extract, 1 unbeaten egg. Beat 200 strokes, 2 minutes by hand or on mixer at low speed. Scrape bowl and spoon or beater.
Add 2 unbeaten eggs, 1 unbeaten egg yolk. Beat 200 strokes. Stir in 1 cup finely cut coconut. Pour into 3 round 9 inch spray coated layer pans, 1 and 1 fourth inch deep. Bake until cake test done.
Cool and remove from pans. Spread fantasia frosting between layers and on sides and top, making graceful little peaks. End of section 4. Read by Marissa D. Six. Clearwater, Florida.
August 10, 2024.
