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Almond Butter Christmas Cake from the Recipes EU Collection

 


Almond Butter Christmas Cake Recipe

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Almond Butter Christmas Cake
3 cups Cake Flour, sifted
3 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
3/4 cup Butter, or shortening
1 1/2 cups Sugar
3 Eggs, unbeaten
1/2 cup Almonds, finely chopped
1/2 cup Raisins, finely cut
1 cup Milk
1 tsp Vanilla


Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift together
three times. Cream butter thoroughly. add sugar gradually, and cream
together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating
thoroughly after each. Add nuts and raisins and beat well. Add flour,
alternately with milk, a small amount at a time, beating after each
addition until smooth. Add vanilla. Bake in two greased 9-incb layer
pans in moderate oven (375 degrees F.) 25 minutes, or until done. Spread
Boiled Frosting (see recipe) between layers and on top and sides of cake.
Decorate top of cake with wreath of holly, using pieces of maraschino
cherries or red cinnamon candies for berries, and slices of angelica or
citron for leaves and stems. Or decorate with poinsettias made of candied
cherries. Slice cherries in rings, cut rings in half, and arrange to form
petals of poinsettias. If desired, Lemon Butter Frosting (see recipe )
may be used.

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