The first recipe we pulled out of the box was for a lucious looking cake topped with pink, fluffy icing. The advertisng for the recipe touts it as being the perfect birthday cake for a girl or a bride-to-be. The recipe, from Swans Down Flour, was printed in a magazine. I wish I could tell you for sure what year but when researching this particular recipe, there was not much to be found. If you can tell me more about it, I'd love for you to email me.
It took two tries to get this one made. My kitchen is at the very end of the Purge, Fluff & Renew list so things are not quite back in order. The first attempt was using my 9" professional pans. They are a bit deeper and brushed aluminum. Since the parchment paper was no where to be found, I opted to just grease the pan. The hubby thought the cake was wonderful.....even though he had to dig it out of the pan with a spatula.
The second attempt was a success. I splurged on new cake pans....non-stick. The rounds popped right out of the pans onto the racks with no problem. And my kitchen smelled amazing. Now, the recipe called for butter or shortening. Because I wanted to stay with a white cake, I used shortening. I did, however, stay with the Swan's Down Cake Flour. Yes, you really must use cake flour. It will give you a lighter, fluffier cake. I store my extra in the freezer to keep it fresh. Just remember to let it warm up to room temperature the next time you want to use it.
The icing is amazing. I believe I described as little pink clouds of fluff on Facebook. Think marshmallow meets strawberry. I don't recall ever making 7-minute nor 4-minute frosting before. The directions though were clear enough that I knew I was basically making a heated meringue. Now, I iced the cake the night before these pictures were taken. (I apologize for the lightening....our weather....one second sun, the next clouds.) The icing got sticky over-night. I would wait to frost the cake til right before you served it. I'm also thinking that rather than strawberries, which are not really in season right now, I might try some of my homemade strawberry jam next time.
This one is definitely a keeper! A printable copy is over on the right or you can click here: http://www.grasshopperlanedesigns.com/June%20Rose%20Cake.pdf. The table is set - who wants to come sit and chat over a steaming cup of rose tea and a huge slice of June Rose cake?
enjoy!
jen
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