Lady Baltimore Cake

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 4 cups flour, sifted
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, at room temperature
• 2 cups sugar, divided
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups 2% low-fat milk
• 8 large egg whites
• 1 cup pecans, chopped
• 1 cup dried fig, chopped fine
• 1/2 cup pitted dates, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup dark raisin
• 1/4 cup grand marnier or 1/4 cup or 1/4 cup orange juice

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 350 degrees. butter and flour three 9 inch round cake pans and line the bottoms with wax paper. a piece of wax paper, sift the flour, baking powder and salt.
• 2 in a medium sized bowl, with an electric mixer on high, cream the butter until fluffy. add 1 1/2 c of the sugar and the vanilla and beat for 2 minutes. using a rubber spatula, fold in the flour mixture 1/3 at a time, alternating with the milk and beginning and ending with the flour.
• 3 in a large bowl with clean beaters and the mixer on high, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form. beat in the remaining 1/2 c of sugar until stiff. fold into butter mixture.
• 4 divide between the 3 cake pans and bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. cool in the pans on racks for 5 minutes. turn out the racks, peel off the paper and cool completely.
• 5 while the cake cools, make the frosting and set aside.
• 6 in a medium bowl, mix the filling ingredients and fold 1 c of the frosting into the filling.
• 7 assemble the cake on a serving plate, spreading the filling between the layers and frost the outside edge and top with the remaining frosting.