colorado cake

Name: Colorado Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 1/2 cup(s) butter; 1 1/2 cup(s) granulated sugar; 2 1/2 cup(s) cake flour, sifted; 3 teaspoon(s) baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt; 1 cup(s) milk; 1 teaspoon(s) vanilla; 4 - egg whites; ## FROSTING:; 4 - egg whites; 1/2 cup(s) granulated sugar; - chocolate curls (optional, but i think it makes the cake look better)

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Melissa Snow

Hillsboro, OR

Updated on Aug 4, 2011

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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prep time 20 Min

cook time 45 Min

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yield 8 serving(s)

Ingredients

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

How To Make colorado cake

Step 1

Cream butter and sugar in an electric mixer. Combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Mix well.

Step 2

Fold dry ingredients into the cream mixture alternately with the milk and vanilla.
Step 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.
Step 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!
Step 5

Once the cake has cooled, heap with the white fluffy frosting. Sprinkle with the chocolate curls.
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