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Mom's Yellow Cake with Butterscotch Frosting
Mom's Yellow Cake with Butterscotch Frosting
- Recipe Submitted by ADMIN on 09/26/2007
Category: Cakes
Ingredients List
- ------------------------------------CAKE------------------------------------
- 1 1/2 c Butter (3 sticks), divided
- 6 lg Eggs, separated
- 1 1/2 ts Baking soda
- 1 1/2 c Buttermilk
- 1 ts Vanilla extract (or more)
- 1/2 ts Salt
- 1 c Sugar, granulated
- 2 1/2 c Confectioner's sugar (4x)
- 2 1/2 c Flour
- Shortening (to prepare
Directions
FROSTING
1 c Light brown sugar, packed
1/2 c Butter
1/2 c Cream (or canned milk)
Confectioner's sugar,
-as needed
Separate eggs; place all the whites in a large bowl, place 3 yolks in one
small container, and the other 3 in another. Prepare 3 8-inch cake pans
with brown-paper rounds (for bottoms) greased with shortening. Preheat oven
to 350 degrees F.
Soften 1/2 C butter in a large bowl; add confectioner's sugar and beat
until thoroughly mixed. Add 3 egg yolks, one after another, and continue
beating. Add vanilla and mix till thoroughly blended, scraping sides with
spatula if necessary.
Measure flour into a small bowl and stir in baking soda. Add to
butter/sugar mixture alternately with buttermilk in 4 steps, beginning and
ending with the flour.
Sprinkle about 1/2 t salt on egg whites. Beat till stiff, but not dry.
Fold egg whites into batter. Divide batter between pans and bake at 350
degrees F. about 30-35 minutes, until done.
TOPPING: Put 1 stick butter in pot; add sugar and cream. Bring to rolling
boil over medium heat for a few minutes and cool. Add confectioner's sugar
until you have the right consistency. When cakes are done and cooled, put
together with cooled topping.
1 c Light brown sugar, packed
1/2 c Butter
1/2 c Cream (or canned milk)
Confectioner's sugar,
-as needed
Separate eggs; place all the whites in a large bowl, place 3 yolks in one
small container, and the other 3 in another. Prepare 3 8-inch cake pans
with brown-paper rounds (for bottoms) greased with shortening. Preheat oven
to 350 degrees F.
Soften 1/2 C butter in a large bowl; add confectioner's sugar and beat
until thoroughly mixed. Add 3 egg yolks, one after another, and continue
beating. Add vanilla and mix till thoroughly blended, scraping sides with
spatula if necessary.
Measure flour into a small bowl and stir in baking soda. Add to
butter/sugar mixture alternately with buttermilk in 4 steps, beginning and
ending with the flour.
Sprinkle about 1/2 t salt on egg whites. Beat till stiff, but not dry.
Fold egg whites into batter. Divide batter between pans and bake at 350
degrees F. about 30-35 minutes, until done.
TOPPING: Put 1 stick butter in pot; add sugar and cream. Bring to rolling
boil over medium heat for a few minutes and cool. Add confectioner's sugar
until you have the right consistency. When cakes are done and cooled, put
together with cooled topping.
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