Golden Cake with Boiled Frosting

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
8 eggs yolks
1/3 cup orange juice
1/3 cup water
1/3 tsp salt
1-3/4 cps pastry flour (sifted)
4 tsp Watkins Baking Powder
1 tsp Watkins Vanilla

Preheat oven to 375ºF.

Cream butter, slowly add sugar.  Add well-beaten egg yolks.  Sift flour, Baking Powder and salt together, and add alternately with orange juice and water. Add  Vanilla. 

Bake in layers or muffin tins in oven for 25 minutes for cupcakes (will make 2 dozen cupcakes), up to 40 minutes for 2 layer pans. Use Boiled White Frosting; you may tint it yellow if you wish.

Boiled Frosting

2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup water
3 egg whites
1 tsp Watkins Vanilla, Lemon, or Almond Extract
yellow food coloring if desired.

Stir sugar and water until dissolved, boil until thread stage or 246ºF  with thermometer. Beat egg whites until stiff.  Very slowly pour hot mixture into stiff egg whites, beating constantly.  Add flavoring.

This delicious recipe was published in a Watkins catalog.   For maximum flavor and quality, prepare only with Watkins high quality ingredients as indicated.

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