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:

  1. Combine flour with sugar, water, oil, dry milk, baking powder, vanilla, and salt in a bowl. Mix until smooth.
  2. Whip the egg whites until stiff. Fold whipped egg whites into the batter until evenly blended. 
  3. Spoon batter into greased 10-inch tube pan. 
  4. Bake 40 to 50 minutes in preheated oven at 375 degrees F.  
  5. If cake bounces back when gently touched in the center then it is done.
  6. Turn out of pan onto cake rack and cool thoroughly.
  7. 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).