Recipe for cooking Burnt Sugar Cake with Burnt Sugar Frosting
Desserts to Go with Coffee and Tea :: Sheet Cakes and Layer Cakes
Burnt Sugar Cake with Burnt Sugar Frosting
Posted by Cookin\Mom at recipegoldmine.com 11/1/2001 10:20 pm
Source: southernfood.about.com
Syrup
2/3 c. sugar
2/3 c. boiling water
Cake
1/2 c. butter, softened
1 1/2 c. sugar
1 tea. vanilla extract or flavoring
2 eggs
2 1/2 c. sifted cake flour
3 tea. baking powder
1/2 tea. salt
3/4 c. cold water
3 Tbsp. burnt-sugar syrup
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
To make the syrup, in a heavy skillet, heat sugar over low heat, stirring constantly, until it melts and becomes dark brown. Slowly add boiling water. Stir until dissolved and boil to reduce to 3/4 c..
To make the cake, in a medium bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla and eggs and beat well. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to the egg mixture, alternately with the water, beating until smooth. Add 3 Tbsp. of the burnt-sugar syrup and beat for 5 min. at medium speed.
Pour into two 9-inch greased and wax paper-lined pans and bake for 20 min., or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool 10 min. in the pans, then turn onto cake racks and cool completely. Frost with Burnt-Sugar Frosting.
Burnt-Sugar Frosting
2 egg whites, at room temperature
1 1/4 c. brown sugar
3 to 4 Tbsp. burnt sugar syrup
1/4 c. cold water
Pinch of salt
1 tea. vanilla extract or flavoring
Combine egg whites, brown sugar, water, sugar syrup and salt and beat one min. to blend. Pour into the top of a double boiler and cook, beating constantly, until frosting forms stiff peaks, about 7 min.. Don\t over-cook. Remove the top of the double boiler to cool the surface.
Add vanilla and beat until frosting reaches spreading consistency, about 2 minutes. Frost cooled Burnt-Sugar Cake.
Enough for a 9-inch two layer cake.
t over-cook. Remove the top of the double boiler to cool the surface.
Add vanilla and beat until frosting reaches spreading consistency, about 2 min.. Frost cooled Burnt-Sugar Cake.
Enough for a 9-inch two layer cake.
