Ingredients:
- 3-1/2 cups cake flour, sifted
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 1 cup water
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1/3 cup nonfat dry milk
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 8 egg whites
- Light Lemon Glaze (recipe follows)
- Colored sugar crystals and dragees
- Small china or plastic baby doll*
Directions:
- Combine flour with sugar, water, oil, dry milk, baking powder, vanilla, and salt in a bowl. Mix until smooth.
- Whip the egg whites until stiff. Fold whipped egg whites into the batter until evenly blended.
- Spoon batter into greased 10-inch tube pan.
- Bake 40 to 50 minutes in preheated oven at 375 degrees F.
- If cake bounces back when gently touched in the center then it is done.
- Turn out of pan onto cake rack and cool thoroughly.
- Drizzle with Light Lemon Glaze and decorate with purple and green sugar crystals and gold dragees.
Makes one 10-inch fancy tube cake, 20 slices.
Light Lemon Glaze Directions:
Mix 1 cup sifted powdered sugar with 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind, a dash of salt, and 2 to 3 tablespoons hot water until mixture is smooth and can be drizzled onto the cake.
* NOTE: Insert doll in cake before inverting cake out of pan unless you can find an oven-proof doll (which can be put into the batter).