Recipe - Orange Blossom Cake With Orange Frosting

1 cup Butter; softened, room temp
2 cup Sugar; sifted
3 1/3 cup Flour
4 teaspoon Baking powder
1 cup Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
One half teaspoon Orange flavoring
6 Egg whites; beaten until sti
1 cup Orange marmalade
** fluffy orange frosting
One fourth cup Sugar
One half teaspoon Cream of tartar
1/8 teaspoon Salt
2 Egg whites
One fourth cup Cold water
1 teaspoon Orange flavoring
One half teaspoon Vanilla extract

Recipe by: FWDS07A Pat Dwigans Fluffy orange frosting recipe follows
cream butter and sugar well. Add flour and baking powder and salt
alternately with milk. Add vanilla and orange flavoring. Finally fold in
the stiffly beaten egg whites. Divide equally between 3 9 inch layer cake
pans greased and floured. Bale 375 about 2025 minutes or until it tests
done. Turn out to cool for at least 20 minutes before turning upright. When
layers are cool assemble cake as follows Put bottom layer on a plate and
spread lightly with orange marmalade. Put second layer upside down on
bottom layer and spread it with marmalade, then put the third layer on the
cake top side up. Spread generously with fluffy orange frosting. Orange
frosting: Fill a large saucepan with about 3 inches of water. Heat until
water begins to simmer. Turn heat off. Then in a 2 quart straight sided
heat proof bowl combine the sugar, cream of tartar, salt, egg whites and
cold water. reheat water in pan until it is again simmering, but not
boiling. Set bowl in hot water and beat with rotary beater until frosting
stands in peaks about 57 minutes. Remove from water add orange flavoring
and vanilla and beat a few minutes longer to blend and to firm up the
frosting
Posted to EATL Digest 23 Sep 96

Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 03:27:22 0500

From: LD Goss ldgoss@METRONET.COM