South Buffalo Cake
Ingredients
- 5 eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 cups cake flour
- 1 cup water
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Separate eggs.
- Beat whites until stiff and fine grained, then gradually beat in 1 cup sugar.
- Beat yolks until very light and to yolks add the second cup of sugar and the vanilla.
- Sift flour, baking powder, and salt, add to yolks alternatively with the water, continue to beat.
- Fold in egg whites and mix carefully.
- Pour into ungreased cake pan.
- Bake in a 350° oven for about 1 hour, then turn heat off and continue to bake for about 15 minutes more.
- Remove from oven, invert and let hang until nearly cool, then loosen and pull from pan.
