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

@riley123

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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