4. Gala Party Cake
Win loads of praise! Serve this beautiful nut cake on festive occasions. Made with New Spry, this cake will stay moist for days. Rich and delicious even without frosting. Try it this way if short of sugar.
| Dry Ingredients | |
|---|---|
| 2-3/4 | cups sifted cake flour[4] |
| 1-3/4 | cups sugar |
| 2 | teaspoons baking powder |
| 1-1/2 | teaspoons salt |
| 1 | cup Spry |
| Liquid Ingredients | |
| 3/4 | cup milk |
| 1 | teaspoon almond extract |
| 1 | teaspoon orange extract |
| 3 | eggs and 1 egg yolk, unbeaten |
| 1 | cup walnuts, cut fine |
SIFT flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt into mixing bowl.... DROP in Spry.... ADD milk, flavoring extracts, and 1 whole egg and beat 200 strokes.... SCRAPE bowl and spoon often throughout entire mixing.... ADD the remaining 2 eggs and egg yolk and beat 250 strokes.... ADD nuts and mix 25 strokes.... BAKE in Spry-coated 9-inch tube pan in moderately hot oven (375° F.) 60-70 minutes.... FROST with Seven Minute Frosting flavored with 1/4 teaspoon each almond and orange extracts.
MARBLED SPICE CAKE
5. Marbled Spice Cake
Attractive, delicious cake. Made so quick and easy—without creaming or long, hard beating—thanks to Spry’s new blendability.
| Dry Ingredients | |
|---|---|
| 2 | cups sifted cake flour[5] |
| 1-1/3 | cups sugar |
| 2-1/2 | teaspoons baking powder (with a tartrate powder, use 4 teaspoons) |
| 1 | teaspoon salt |
| 1/2 | cup Spry |
| Liquid Ingredients | |
| 3/4 | cup milk |
| 1-1/2 | teaspoons vanilla |
| 2 | eggs, unbeaten |
| Spices for 1/2 of Batter | |
| 1 | teaspoon cinnamon |
| 1/4 | teaspoon cloves |
| 1/2 | teaspoon allspice |
| 1/2 | teaspoon nutmeg |
SIFT flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt into mixing bowl.... DROP in Spry.... ADD about 2/3 of milk, then vanilla, and beat 150 strokes.... SCRAPE bowl and spoon often throughout entire mixing.... ADD eggs and beat 250 strokes.... ADD remaining milk and beat 50 strokes.... DIVIDE batter in half.... ADD spices to 1/2 of batter and blend.... DROP batter alternately by tablespoonfuls into 10 × 10 × 2-inch Spry-coated pan. RUN spatula through batter several times to marble.... BAKE in moderately hot oven (375° F.) 35-45 minutes.... FROST top of cake with Minute Penuche Frosting.