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colorado cake

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Private Recipe by
Melissa Snow
Hillsboro, OR

This cake is also called White Mountain cake. The trick is to heap on the frosting to represent the mountains of Colorado.

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yield 8 serving(s)
prep time 20 Min
cook time 45 Min

Ingredients For colorado cake

  • 1/2 c
    butter
  • 1 1/2 c
    granulated sugar
  • 2 1/2 c
    cake flour, sifted
  • 3 tsp
    baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp
    salt
  • 1 c
    milk
  • 1 tsp
    vanilla
  • 4
    egg whites
  • FROSTING:
  • 4
    egg whites
  • 1/2 c
    granulated sugar
  • chocolate curls (optional, but i think it makes the cake look better)

How To Make colorado cake

  • 1
    Cream butter and sugar in an electric mixer. Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Mix well.
  • 2
    Fold dry ingredients into the cream mixture alternately with the milk and vanilla.
  • 3
    Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold into mixture. Turn the batter into a greased and floured cake pan. Bake cake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Cool cake in the pan on a rack for 20 minutes. Invert onto rack.
  • 4
    While the cake is baking prepare the frosting. Beat egg whites. Slowly add the sugar. When the frosting is glossy and cream...it's done!
  • 5
    Once the cake has cooled, heap with the white fluffy frosting. Sprinkle with the chocolate curls.
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