Cheryl here with the results of my Sunday baking fun.
At least one weekend a month, I try out a new-to-me recipe. This month, I’ve decided to try a Lady Baltimore cake that my mother made when she was a teenager. Mom never baked one for us kids, but she always talked about it. Mostly about how much fun she had with her cousins taking an entire afternoon to create this lovely white cake with a fruit filling and seven-minute frosting. I looked up the recipe and gave it a try.
It required a surprising number of ingredients, but nothing too fancy. In fact, since she grew up in rural eastern Kentucky, everything had to be readily available. Unfortunately, she didn’t have a nearby Publix.
The white cake turned out to be soft and moist with a delicate flavor. The recipe called for three eight-inch layers. Since this was an experiment for me, I decided to just try a two-layer version.
The seven-minute icing was a delicate balancing act for stirring the mixture over a pan of simmering water then transferring it over to my stand mixer to finish it off.
The finished cake was delicately flavored, and the icing was a sweet marshmallow rather than a sweet confection. The difficulty in making such a cake in an old-fashioned kitchen with a wood stove and hand whipping the icing makes me admire the skills of my mother and her cousins.
Do you have a regular weekend challenge?
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