Velvet Cake

Name: Velvet Cake
Ingredients: ½ cup corn-starch.; 1½ cups sugar.; Yolks 4 eggs.; ½ cup cold water.; 1½ cups flour.; ⅓ cup almonds blanched and shredded.; ½ cup butter.; Whites 4 eggs.; 4 teaspoons baking powder.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

By Fannie Merritt Farmer

Published 1896

About

Ingredients

½ cup butter.
1½ cups sugar.
Yolks 4 eggs

Dessert
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs well beaten, and water. Mix and sift flour, corn-starch, and baking powder, and add to first mixture; then add whites of eggs beaten until stiff. After putting in pan, cover with almonds and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven.