Wedding Cake

Ingredients

• 3 cups cake flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 5 egg whites
• 6 tablespoons sugar
• 2/3 cup shortening
• 1 2/3 cups sugar
• 1 1/3 cups milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract

Directions

1. 1

   sift together flour, bp and salt twice.

2. 2

   beat egg whites until foamy.

3. 3

   add 6 Tbs sugar, 1Tbs at a time beating until mixture stands in soft peaks.

4. 4

   cream shortening, add 1 2/3 cup sugar, cream until light and fluffy, add vanilla and almond extract.

5. 5

   Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating after eah addition until smooth.

6. 6

   Add egg whites and beat for one minute until smooth.

7. 7

   Grease pans two nine inch square pans or one 13x9x2.

8. 8

   Bake in moderate oven 350, square pans take 30 to 40 min oblong pan 35 to40.

9. 9

   Cool cake on racks 10 minute.

10. 10

    Loosen from sides of pan turn right side up to cool.

11. 11

    To keep from drying cover or wrap cake as soon as cooled.

12. 12

    Make recipe 5 times to serve 100 guest.

13. 13

    When cake is assembled frost the sides of whole cake.

14. 14

    Start at the top and work toward bottom layers.

15. 15

    Ornamental frosting: 12 cup butter 1/2 tsp salt 12 cup confectioners sugar sifted 5 egg whites unbeaten 1/2 cup cream 2 tsp vanilla.

16. 16

    Cream butter, add salt gradually add about 1 cup of the sugar, blending well.

17. 17

    Add creaming sugar alternately with egg whites. Cream until right consistency to spread.

18. 18

    Aply a thin glaze to cake before frosting to anchor crumbs.

19. 19

    Make glaze by adding hot water to some of the frosting.

20. 20

    About 1 tbs water to 1 cup frosting.

21. 21

    To tint frosting add about 1/4 tsp food color with 1 tbs frosting, add small amounts of this to your base frosting.

22. 22

    Tint enough to frost whole cake as it is hard to match colors with another batch.