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Cake: Burnt Sugar Cake 1947 (Caramel Cake) Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Cake:
1½ cups sugar
(½ cup sugar to burn and mix with hot water below)
½ cup butter
2 eggs
2½ cups flour
½ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons Baking powder
1 cup hot water
1 teaspoon vanilla
Burnt Sugar also known as Caramel Icing:
2 cups granulated sugar
⅔ cup cream
⅓ cup butter

Directions:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350º. Grease and flour two round pans.
Sift together flour, salt and baking powder set aside.
In small pan cook ½ cup of sugar. When dark brown (but not burnt to the extent of tasting burnt) add hot water slowly (off the heat).
In large mixing bowl blend 1½ cup sugar and butter. Add eggs and beat until fluffy. Blend flour, salt, baking powder. and cooled burnt sugar water. Pour into prepared pans and bake 25-30 minutes.

Frosting: Burnt Sugar Icing
Burn sugar until brown add cream and boil until soft boil stage ( drop of syrup into a cup of cold water and forms a soft ball when molding between fingers). Add butter and stir until melted. Ice cake.

 

 

 

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