Christmas
Santa Cake
Pound
Cake
Ingredients
1
lb butter
3⅓
cups sugar
10
eggs
4
cups cake flour
1
teaspoon salt
2
teaspoon vanilla, or 1 teaspoon mace
Method
1.
Preheat the oven to 325° (165°C).
2.
Butter and lightly flour 9 x 5 inch loaf
pan.
3.
Cream the butter, slowly add the sugar,
and beat until light.
4.
Add the eggs, one at a time, beating
each in well.
5.
Stir in the flour, salt, and vanilla or
mace and combine well.
6.
Spoon into the pan and bake for 1- 1¼ hours,
or until a toothpick comes out clean.
7.
Cool in the pan for 5 minutes before
turning out onto a rack.
8.
Decorate.
9.
Serve very thin slices.
Pound
Cake Loaf was made and prepared by Shirley-Ann Pearman
Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman
Recipe was taken from The Fannie Farmer
CookBook, the chapter on “Cakes” Cakes Made With Shortening (Butter Cakes),
Recipe on page 623 of the Twelfth Edition.
PDF Version of Pound Cake
Loaf (Recipe was doubled for Christmas Santa Cake)
Icing For Decorating
Cake
Ingredients
½
lb butter
½
cup Crisco
½
cup milk
1
teaspoon vanilla
3½
lbs Icing Sugar (3 boxes or bags)
Method
1.
Cream butter and Crisco until almost
white and fluffy.
2.
Add sugar and milk alternately.
3.
Add vanilla and continue to whip until
light and fluffy.
Optional: If you prefer a snow white effect substitute
butter with all Crisco and use clear vanilla.
Recipe was provided by Mrs.
Fishenden who was my Cake Decorating Instructor at the Warwick Community School
in the early 1980s to which I have used for many years.
Required
For Decorating
Santa’s List Pan
Tips 2, 3, 17
Art Brush (Optional)
1.
Ice list area on cake top and sides
smooth.
2.
Outline facial features, cap, mittens,
mustache, beard and sleeves with tip 3 strings.
3.
Fill in eyes and mouth with tip 3
thinned icing (smooth with dampened art brush).
4.
Cover cap, pompon, mittens, face,
cheeks, lip and sleeve with tip 17 stars.
Cover cuffs and hat brim with tip 17 zigzags.
5.
Pipe tip 17 side-by-side stripe mustache
and elongated shell brows.
6.
Ice beard area (pat with spatula for a
fluffy effect). Print tip 2 message on
cake top. Edge cake base with tip 17
star border.
Instructions
provided by Wilton Enterprises (1983
Cake Decorating – Wilton Yearbook)
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