Recipe - Burnt Sugar Cake

SYRUP
Three fourths cup Sugar
Three fourths cup Boiling water

CAKE
2/3 cup Butter (1 1/3 sticks)
1 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
2 Eggs;, separated
3 cup Cake flour
1 tablespoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt
Three fourths cup Milk

For syrup, in a small heavy skillet or saucepan, heat sugar over medium
heat. Lower to mediumlow as syrup forms; stir frequently breaking up
lumps. Cook and stir until brown syrup forms and mixture begins to smoke,
about 30 minutes. Gradually stir in boiling water. Remove from heat; cool.
Reserve One half cup for cake frosting. Preheat oven to 375. For cake, cream
butte and sugar together in a mixing bowl until light, about 3 minutes.
Gradually beat in One half cup burnt sugar syrup. Add vanilla, then egg yolks
one at a time, beating after each addition. Sift together flour, baking
powder and salt. Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating batter
until smooth. Beat egg whites until stiff, gently fold by hand into batter.
Pour batter into two 8inch oiled layer cake pans, smoothing batter. Bake
for 20 to 25 minutes. Remove and cool. Makes 12 servings. Frost with Butter
Cream Frosting or Sevenminute burnt sugar frosting. Typed by Ethel Snyder
essie49@juno.com Date August 31, 1997

Recipe by: GRIT July 13, 1997 Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #769 by
essie49@juno.com (Ethel R Snyder) on Sep 01, 1997