Lady Baltimore Cake

Cooking Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350F. Grease and flour two 8-inch round cake pans. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt, and sift them together onto a piece of wax paper. Put the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, and beat until smooth and well blended. Stir the vanilla and the milk together and add to the butter-sugar mixture in two stages alternately with the flour mixture, beating until the batter is well blended and smooth after each addition. In a separate mixing bowl, beat the egg whites until they are stiff but moist. Gently stir one-third of the beaten whites into the batter, then scoop up the remaining beaten whites, drop them onto the batter, and fold them in. Divide between the prepared cake pans. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes, or until a toothpick or straw inserted in the center of a cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let cool in their pans for 5 minutes, then turn them out of the pans onto a rack to cool completely. Fill with Lady Baltimore Filling (p. 850) and frost with Seven-Minute Frosting (p. 844).