Kate's favorite birthday cake :::gwhp32a

Yield: 1 Servings

Ingredients:

3 c Cake flour; sifted
3 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Salt
2/3 c Butter; or shortening
1 3/4 c Sugar
5 ea Egg whites; unbeaten
1 c Milk
1 ts Vanilla

Instructions:

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 egg whites one at a time beating very thoroughly after each. Add flour alternately with milk a small amount at a time beating after each addition until smooth. Add vanilla. Bake in 2 greased deep 9 inch layer pans in a moderate oven 375 deg. 25 minutes or until done. Spread Boiled Frosting (see recipe) between layers and on top and sides of cake making deep swirls in the frosting around the top edge of the cake but smooth frosting in the center. Sprinkle tiny colored candies in swirls of frosting around edge of cake. Write "Happy Birthday" in the center with tinted frosting. Or sprinkle with coconut while frosting is still soft. Tiny silver drag'ees may also be used for decorating instead of the colored candies. Kate Smith Collection 1940 Published by General Foods Corp.