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ALMOND BUTTER CHRISTMAS CAKE
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3 cups Cake Flour -- sifted
3 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt
3/4 cup Butter or shortening
1 1/2 cups Sugar
3 Eggs -- unbeaten
1/2 cup Almonds -- finely chopped
1/2 cup Raisins -- finely cut
1 cup Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla
Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift
together three times. Cream butter thoroughly. add sugar gradually,
and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time,
beating thoroughly after each. Add nuts and raisins and beat well.
Add flour, alternately with milk, a small amount at a time, beating
after each addition until smooth. Add vanilla. Bake in two greased
9-inch layer pans in moderate oven (375 degrees F.) 25 minutes, or
until done. Spread Boiled Frosting (see recipe) between layers and on
top and sides of cake. Decorate top of cake with wreath of holly,
using pieces of maraschino cherries or red cinnamon candies for
berries, and slices of angelica or citron for leaves and stems. Or
decorate with poinsettias made of candied cherries.
Slice cherries in rings, cut rings in half, and arrange to form
petals of poinsettias. If desired, Lemon Butter Frosting (see recipe
) may be used.
Kate Smith Collection 1940 Published by General Foods Corp
(Courtesy of Barb Day)
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 3372 Calories; 63g Fat (16.6%
calories from fat); 70g Protein; 644g Carbohydrate; 12g Dietary
Fiber; 669mg Cholesterol; 2884mg Sodium. Exchanges: 18 1/2
Grain(Starch); 4 Lean Meat; 4 Fruit; 1 Non-Fat Milk; 9 Fat; 20 1/2
Other Carbohydrates.
Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head,
but you can prevent them from building their nests in your
hair Deirdre Dee (zosha)
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