Triple-Tier Party Cake
Reading edition
Oven temperature: 375°F. (moderately hot) Baking time: 22-27 min. Yield: three 9″ round layers
Sift ...2¾ cups sifted cake flour, 1¾ cups sugar, 2 teaspoons double acting baking powder[8], 1½ teaspoons salt into mixing bowl
Add ...1 cup Homogenized Spry, ¾ cup milk, 1 teaspoon almond extract, 1 teaspoon orange extract, 1 unbeaten egg
Beat ...200 strokes (2 min. by hand or on mixer at low speed). Scrape bowl and spoon or beater.
Add ...2 unbeaten eggs, 1 unbeaten egg yolk
Beat ...200 strokes (same as above)
Stir in ...1 cup finely cut coconut
Pour ...into 3 round 9″ Sprycoated layer pans 1¼″ deep
Bake ...until cake tests done
Cool ...and remove from pans, see inside back cover.
Spread ...Fantasia Frosting (p. 12) between layers and on sides and top, making graceful little peaks.
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