Dream Cakes
Origin: Clarksville, Tennessee
Source: Martha McCulloch-Williams, 1913
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 2 cup flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 6 large egg whites
- boiled frosting
- tiny pink candies
Instructions
- Cream well half a cup butter.
- Add a cup and a half of sugar, half a cup cold water, two cups flour sifted twice with two teaspoonfuls baking powder, a teaspoonful lemon extract, and the stiffly beaten whites of six eggs.
- Bake in small shapes.
- Frost with boiled frosting, and ornament with tiny pink candies.