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Title: Basic White Cake
Post by: Katie on July 31, 2007, 08:43:51 AM
By: Ruby Pope

¼ lb butter
2 cups sugar
3 ½ cups flour
4 tsp baking powder
Dash of salt
1 ½ cups ice water
4 egg whites
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp wither almond or lemon extract

Cream together the butter and 1 ½ cups sugar until light and fluffy.  Sift together flour, baking  powder and salt.  Combine dry ingredients with butter/sugar mixture and add ice water.  Beat in egg whites then ½ more of sugar.  Lastly fold in vanilla and almond or lemon extract.  Bake 325 until toothpick comes out clean.