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As-You-Like-it-Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cups sifted cake flour
1 1/3 cups sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/3 cup soft margarine or butter
2/3 cup milk
1/2 tsp. lemon extract (okay if you don't have it)
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/3 cup milk
2 egg yolks
1 whole egg

As-You-Like-It Frosting
1/3 soft butter
3 cups icing sugar
3 Tbsp. cream or milk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 square (1 oz.) unsweetened chocolate, melted
red food colouring (or other colours)
Directions:
Directions:
Heat oven to 350º. Grease and flour a 15 x 10 x 1 inch pan (also called a Jelly Roll pan but I use mine as a cookie sheet, for baking chicken etc.).
Sift together into mixing bowl flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
Add butter or margarine, 2/3 cup of milk, lemon extract and vanilla. Beat 2 minutes at medium speed on mixer.
Add remaining milk and unbeaten egg yolks and whole egg. Beat 2 more minutes.
Pour into prepared pan. Gently level.
Bake about 25 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly in the centre. Cool and ice with As-You-LIke-It icing. Cut each third of the cake into different shapes such as fingers, squares and diamonds.
Frosting:
Blend butter and sugar. Stir in cream or milk and vanilla, adding enough milk to make the mixture easy to spread. Divide icing into 3 parts.
Mark cake into 3rds. Ice 1/3 with plain icing. Drizzle a little of the melted chocolate over it from the tip of a teaspoon. Draw the blade of a knife back and forth to make a design.
Add remaining chocolate to second 1/3 of icing and ice another 1/3 of the cake.
Add enough red food colouring to tint the remaining icing pink. Ice the rest of the cake. Get creative and add other flavours, colours etc.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
10 to 12
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This is a pretty tea cake. I used to make it as a little girl on Saturday afternoons with my sister and mother. This cake was all about designing the perfect icing and then sampling little squares of each kind over and over….
From the Margo Oliver Weekend Magazine Cookbook, 1967

 

 

 

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