Recipe - Silver Moon White Cake

2 2/3 cup Sifted cake flour
3 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Salt
5 Egg whites (at room temp.)
One half cup Sugar
2/3 cup Shortening
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 One fourth cup Sugar
1 cup Milk
1 Complete white cake mix

Grease 15 x 10" cake pan. Line with waxed paper. Grease paper. Preheat oven
to
325 degrees. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt 3 times
(!). In small mixer bowl, beat egg whites at high speed until foamy. Add
One half c. sugar gradually, beating only until meringue will hold soft peaks.
In *large* mixer bowl, beat shortening and flavoring at medium speed until
smooth and plastic. Turn to high speed and add 1 One fourth c. sugar gradually
during 1 minute of beating. Scrape down bowl and beater well and beat 1
minute longer. Add flour mixture alternating with milk in small amounts,
beating at low speed after each addition. Add first One fourth flour, beat; then
add 1/3 milk and beat. Continue till all has been added. Add meringue and
beat 1 minute more. In another bowl, mix white cake mix according to
package directions. Fold into original cake batter until completely
integrated. Pour into prepared cake pan and bake at 325 degrees for 3540
minutes. Test with toothpick.)

NOTES : Like a bakery Cake!
Posted to EATL Digest 19 Feb 97 by Dot McChesney jrjet@MTCO.COM on Feb
20, 1997.