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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8 to 10

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Southern Cakes

By Nancie McDermott

Published 2007

  • About

This old-fashioned confection is remarkable for how delightful it is to see and to eat, how seldom we see it nowadays, and how simple it is to make. The cake is delicate and airy, quickly mixed up, and baked in a flash. The filling can be jelly, including good old grape jelly from the peanut-butter-and-jelly shelf, or raspberry jam or Lemon Curd, or a batch of firmly whipped cream sweetened with confectioners’ sugar and a dollop of blackberry jam. Y