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Frostings, Icings, and Fillings

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Southern Cakes
Southern Cakes

By Nancie McDermott

Published 2007

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Here you’ll find an assortment of wonderful frostings. Some are old-timey and involve cooking sugar and butter into a fudgy, delicious icing. Others are as easy as beating confectioners’ sugar with butter and vanilla to make a sweet, simple finish for an everyday cake.

The chapter ends with several recipes that utilize classic cooking techniques, none of them beyond the scope of home cooks. LEMON CURD is fabulous, both as a cake filling and as a treat with pound cake, scones, or an English tea. BOILED CUSTARD is a Christmas tradition in Kentucky and is a central element of tipsy cake, a Southern take on English trifles.

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