Lady Baltimore Cake

Total Time: 40 mins
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12


• 1/2 cup butter (no susbstitutions)


• 2 cups sugar


• 2 cups cake flour, sifted (all-purpose is fine if you don't have cake flour)


• 1/2 cup evaporated milk, diluted with


• 1/2 cup water


• 6 teaspoons baking powder


• 7 egg whites


• 1/2 teaspoon rose water (orange extract is nice, too)


• lady baltimore frosting (lady baltimore filling and icing)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350f; grease three 9" layer cake pans, line with waxed paper and grease paper.


• 2 beat egg whites stiffly; fold in rose water and set to the side.


• 3 cream butter and sugar together in another bowl until fluffy.


• 4 sift baking powder and flour together.


• 5 add flour and milk alternately to the creamed mixture, beating vigorously each time.


• 6 fold in stiffly beaten egg whites; pour evenly into prepared pans and bake for 25 minutes.


• 7 cool slightly in pans; turn out onto cooling racks and peel waxed paper carefully from cakes.


• 8 fill and frost with lady baltimore frosting/filling.