Silver White Cake

Cake, Dessert, Family, Juanita Glor

Ingredients

2 cups. sifted cake flour

3 tsp. baking powder

¾ tsp. salt

3 medium egg whites

¼ cup sugar

½ cup shortening

1 cup sugar

1 cup less 2 T. milk

1 tsp. vanilla

½ tsp. almond (or 4 tsp. vanilla, and 1 tsp. lemon)

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Sift together first three ingredients three times. Set aside.

Beat egg whites till foamy. Add 1/4 cup sugar gradually, beating only until mixture holds soft peaks. Then with mixer at “cream”, thoroughly mix shortening with 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy-about two minutes all together. Next, at low speed, blend/beat in alternately, just until smooth, flour mixture in fourths, and combined milk, and extracts in thirds; then thoroughly beat egg white mixture into butter. Grease and flour a 13 x 9 x 2 pan. Turn into pans. Bake at 375 degrees 30-35 minutes or until done. Cool.

When cooled, ice half of the cake with chocolate icing, the other half with vanilla/white icing. Top half with black walnuts, the other half with coconut.

Notes

(Remember this one, and remember why?
Chocolate icing on half the cake, with white/vanilla on the other half!)