Daisy Dream Cake
Martha Logan's "Helping Hand" Recipe Points The Way To Sure Success Even if you've never made cake, you'll make a beauty with this recipe and Swift'ning. Helping hands warn where there's a chance of mistake. Swigt'ning insures light, moist, tender perfection.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Swift'ning
- 3 cups sifted cake flour Be sure to sift flour before measuring
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 teaspoons baking powder (4 if tartrate type)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions
- Have all ingredients at room temperature. Preheat oven and set at 375 degrees F. Line bottoms of two 8-inch square (or 9-inch round) layer cake pans with waxed paper.
- Put Swift'ning in mixing bowl. Sift in flour, sugar, baking power and salt. Add milk and vanilla. Beat for 2 minutes-by hand, using about 150 strokes per minute; or at medum speed of electric mixer. Keep scraping batter off sides and bottom of mixer bowl with rubber scraper. After 2 minutes, scrape beaters or spoon and mixing bowl thoroughly.
- Add the unbeaten eggs. Beat 1 minutes. Scrape beaters and bowl thoroughly. Continue beating 1 minute. Pour equal amounts of batter into prepared cake pans. Bake about 30 minutes. When cake is done it will spring back quickly when pressed by the finger. Cool on cake rack 5 minutes; loosen sides carefully with spatula, invert on rack, remove pans. When thoroughly cool, fill and frost. Decorate with whole blanched almonds, tips dipped in melted chocolate.