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Ingredients
| salted butter: 1/4 cup |
| multipurpose shortening: 1/4 cup |
| granulated sugar: 1 cup |
| cake flour: 1 3/4 cups |
| baking powder: 2 1/2 tsp |
| 2% milk: 1/3 cup |
| vanilla extract: 1 tsp |
| almond extract: 1/2 tsp |
| eggs: 5 (whites//stiffly beaten) |
| granulated sugar: 1 cup |
| water: 2 Tbl |
| vanilla extract: 1/2 tsp |
| cream of tartar: 1/8 tsp |
| eggs: 2 (whites) |
| red food coloring: 2 drops |
| candy-coated milk chocolate eggs: 1/2 cup |
| flaked coconut meat: 1 cup |
| green food coloring: 4 drops |
Easter Party Cake
Credit: AllRecipes
User rating:
"This cake is a great holiday treat. Hope that you will enjoy it."
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Prep Time
30 min -
Cook Time
90 min -
Servings
10 serving(s)
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Directions
- Cream butter or margarine and shortening. Add 1 cup sugar gradually, beating until mixture resembles whipped cream.
- Sift flour and baking powder together 3 times; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and almond extract. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites carefully. Pour batter into two greased 8 inch round pans.
- Bake for 20 to 30 minutes at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Cool layers on wire racks.
- To Make Boiled Icing: Place 1 cup sugar, water, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, cream of tartar, 2 egg whites, and red food colouring in top of double boiler. Cook, beating constantly, until frosting is thick and creamy.
- Frost cake with icing. Make a nest of green coconut on top of cake, and fill nest with candy eggs. Sprinkle a border of coconut around base of cake. Makes 15-20 servings.
- To make green tinted coconut, Place coconut in a large plastic bag, put a few drops of green food color in the bag and shake until desired consistency is achieved.