From Louisiana to Pillsbury to you. . .
Mardi Gras Party Cake
$25,000 Bake-Off Winner
Delicate texture, a marvelous double-butterscotch
taste in cake and icing . . . deliciously moist, light and
proud. It's worthy of your best, so that's how you start
. . . with Pillsbury's BEST Flour: so white, so fresh,
so smooth in the blending.
A cake like this is a dessert by itself. To get it finished
easily in your busy day, make the filling-topping ahead,
store in refrigerator, re-heat to use. Recipe's below
and in specially marked Pillsbury's BEST Flour sacks,
along with more Bake-Off winners! - v
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fib mois, so flavorful, you know the BEST Flour made it!
Mrs. Kunle Sur1s of Lake Charles,
Louisiana really couldn't believe it when
her cake won the first grand prize.
She's baked many a cake in her life,
often for the First Methodist Church,
but never .with such a triumph as this.
MARDI GRAS PARTY CAKE
Adapted by Ann Pillsbury
BAKE at 375 for 25 to 30 minutes.
MAKES two 9-inch layers.
MtH H cup NosHo's Butterscotch Mortals in
3-i' cup water in saucepan. CooL
Sift
together. .2i cups sifted Pillsbury's BEST All Fur
pot How
1 teaspoon Morton Salt
1 teaspoon soda and
34 teaspoon double-acting baking
powder. Set aside.
Add 114 cups sugar gradually to
34 cup shortining, cream welL
Blend in. . . 3 unbeaten oggs; beat well after each.
Blend in melted morsels; mix welL
'Add the dry ingredients alternately with
1 cup bvttorailk or sour milk, begin
ning and ending with dry ingredi
ents. Blend well after each addition.
Turn into two 9-inch round (or two cl
inch at least 134 inches deep) layer
pans, well greased and floured on
bottoms.
Boko at 375 for 25 to 30 minutes. Cool;
spread Filling between layers and
on top to within 34 inch of edge.
Frost sides and edge with Sea Foam
Frosting or whipped cream.
BUTTERSCOTCH FILLING
Combine 34 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon corn
starch, 34 cup evaporated milk, 34 cup water,
34 cup Nestle's Butterscotch Morsels and 1
beaten egg yolk in saucepan. Cook over medium
heat, stirring constantly, until thick. Remove
from heat; add 2 tablespoons Land O'Lakes
Butter, 1 cup coconut, chopped, and 1 cup nuts,
chopped. CooL
SEA FOAM FROSTING
Combine in saucepan 34 cup sugar, 34 cup firmly
packed brown sugar, 34 cup water and 1 table
spoon corn syrup. Cook until a little syrup
dropped in cold water forms a soft ball (236 F.).
Beat 1 egg white with 34 teaspoon French's
Cream of Tartar until stiff peaks form. Add syrup
to egg white in slow stream, beating until thick.
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