Lamb Cakecakes, holiday 1 1/2 cup sugar 1/3 cup butter 1 cup milk 5 egg whites 3 teaspoon baking powder 3 cup flour; (cake flour preferred 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; or almond 1 ; or lemon flavor 1 two-part lamb cake mold Preheat oven to 300 F. Cream sugar and butter. Sift flour and baking powder. Add flour to sugar/butter mixture alternately with milk. Add flavoring. Fold in well-beaten egg whites [beaten to soft-peak stage]. Prepare mold [grease well with solid shortening and dust with flour, or alternately, spray thoroughly with pan coating]. Fill face side first, attach back side, and bake for 50 minutes. Turn off oven. Flip to bake back in turned-off oven for 10 minutes. Ice with 7-minute Icing. Sprinkle with white coconut (dye brown or black for different-colored lambs). Use small raisins for eyes and a small red cinnamon candy for the nose. Lay Easter grass around and tie pastel-colored ribbon around the neck. "We have a mold that has been used in my family for generations at children's birthdays. The cake is an old-fashioned cake with a strong texture, but tasty. The presentation is wonderful..." Posted on Prodigy by Jan Moppert (VEFT34A), then on GEnie by Cathy Svitek (C.SVITEK), MM by Linda Shogren (TEECH) |
