I don't normally post pictures of food, but since this is probably the prettiest cake I've ever made, I thought I'd document it. :) It was my turn to host book club this month, and we were reading To Kill A Mockingbird. (I wasn't that enthused about a re-read, but it was much better than I had remembered). Miss Maudie's Lane Cake kept coming up in the book, so I toyed with the idea of trying to make it for our dessert. My friend Becky egged me on, so I went on an old-fashioned cake adventure. It was pretty fun. I'd never made a filling like that or made a seven-minute frosting. In some strange sense it was fun to make and eat something from history. Mrs. Lane won a prize for this cake and published it in a cookbook in 1898. It became a big hit in Alabama and the nation afterward, although I'd never eaten it before. The furor must have subsided in the last century.I was expecting it to be too sweet and heavy after all that work, but it was really good!
3 comments:
I am so impressed!!! I have yet to make a cake that looks anything close to that!!! Stunning. If you are ever back in NC and feel like entering baked goods in the fair I betcha that would take the blue ribbon :)
Even though it looks like a lot of work I would love the recipe...if you are sharing it!
Love, Katie
Katie - the recipe for a Lane cake is all over the internet...I just used one from www.recipezaar.com, and then frosted it with a seven-minute frosting (which is also really easy to find, I think). It is a lot of work, but I made the cake and the filling one day, and assembled it and made the frosting the next. It was kinda fun!
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