Velvet Cake

Velvet Cake

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
11/2 cups flour
11/2 cups

Directions:
sugar
1/2 cup corn−starch
Yolks 4 eggs
4 teaspoons baking
powder
1/2 cup cold
water
Whites 4 eggs
1/3 cup almonds, blanched, and shredded
Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs well beaten, and water. Mix and sift
flour,
corn−starch, and baking powder, and add to first mixture; then add whites of eggs beaten until
stiff. After putting in pan, cover with almonds and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Bake forty
minutes in a moderate oven.
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