50+ Friends Club Cookbook -- Cakes and Frostings -- Daffodil Cake
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Daffodil Cake
From the Kitchen of: Sylvia
Source: Joy of Cooking
A marble cake effect of Angel Food and Orange Sponge Cake that is delicious.
1 1/8 | cup | cake flour (1 C and 2 tbsp) |
1 1/4 | cup | sugar |
10 | | egg whites |
1/2 | tsp | salt |
1 | tsp | cream of tartar |
1 | tsp | vanilla |
- Sift the flour before measuring. Then resift.
- Sift the sugar separately.
- Whip the eggs on a platter until frothy. Add salt and cream of tartar.
- Whip until they hold a point. Fold the sifted sugar in gradually. Separate the mixture into halves.
- Fold into one half a little at a time 3/4 cupful of the sifted flour and egg yolks and orange rind.
- Fold into the other half a little at a time 1/2 cupful of the sifted flour and vanilla.
- Place the batters, a cupful or more at a time, in an ungreased 9 inch tube pan, alternating the colors.
- Bake the cake in a slow oven 250° for 30 minutes. Increase the heat to 325° and bake it for about 20 minutes longer.