Birthday Cake
A dish built around butter and brown sugar.
contains glutencontains dairycontains eggscontains nutscontains alcohol
Ingredients
US
Metric
- ½ cup butter
- 1¼ cups brown sugar
- Yolks 2 eggs
- ⅔ cup milk
- 2¼ cups flour
- 3½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon orange extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons Sherry
- ½ cup raisins, seeded and cut in pieces
- ½ cup walnut meats, cut in pieces
- ⅓ cup currants
- 2 tablespoons candied orange peel, finely cut
- Whites 2 eggs
Make it lactose-friendly
- ½ cup butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
- ⅔ cup milk → lactose-free milk, oat milk, or almond milk
Steps
- Cream the butter. Gradually add the brown sugar, then beat in the egg yolks.
- Sift the flour with the baking powder. Add it to the butter mixture alternately with the milk.
- Stir in the orange extract, vanilla, and Sherry.
- Mix in the raisins, walnut meats, currants, and candied orange peel.
- Beat the egg whites until stiff, then fold them into the batter.
- Pour the batter into a buttered and floured angel-cake pan.
- Bake in a slow oven for 1¼ hours.
Nutrition (estimated, per serving)
| Calories | 472 |
|---|---|
| Protein | 6.0 g |
| Fat | 17.4 g |
| Carbs | 76.2 g |
| Fiber | 2.6 g |
| Sodium | 240 mg |
Source
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (Fannie Farmer, pub. domain) — Public domain in the United States