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Easter Lamb Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 c. cake flour, sift before measuring
2 tsp. baking powder
1 c. sugar
1/2 c. butter
3/4 c. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
2 lg. egg whites, whipped
Directions:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 370º
Have all ingredients about 75º.
Grease the mold with unsalted fat or oil, use a pastry brush and be lavish.
Dust the greased mold with flour, tip to get rid of excess.
Sift before measuring, 2 c. cake flour.
Resift with 2 tsp. baking powder.
Cream until fluffy, 1 c. sugar & 1/2 c. butter.
Combine 3/4 c. milk with 1 tsp. vanilla.
Add the sifted ingredients to the butter mixture in 3 parts, alternating with thirds of the liquid combination.
Stir until smooth after each addition.
Beat until stiff but not dry, 2 lg. egg whites.
Fold them lightly into the batter, fill mold and bake about 1 hour.
Tips: after filling mold, move wooden spoon gently through dough to remove bubbles, do not disturb floured surface.
Insert wooden toothpicks in lamb's ears and nose.
Put lid on mold, wire halves together so steam of rising dough will not force the two sections apart.
Put mold on cookie sheet to bake.
Test by inserting a metal skewer or toothpick through the steam vent, if it comes out clean the cake is done.
Cool on a rack for 15 min.
Carefully remove top, let bottom cool for 5 minutes more.
Remove lamb and continue to cool on rack, do not put lamb upright until it is cold.
If you freeze the cake it will be easier to frost.
Frost with White Icing.
Decorate with shredded coconut, jellybeans, raisins, nuts cherries and fresh flowers.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Grama used to make quite a few of these cakes at Easter and deliver them to her friends. Mary has the lamb mold now and it was her family's traditional Easter dessert for the over 30 years they lived in Texas. The antique roses and wild flowers always bloomed at Easter to provide glorious bedding for the lamb.

 

 

 

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