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Caramel Layer Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups of sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/2 cups of flour
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• 2 teaspoons of baking-powder

Instructions

Place one-half cup of sugar in pan over fire. Stir until liquid smokes and burns brown. Add one-half cup of boiling water and cook into syrup. Take butter, one and one-half cups of sugar, yolks of two eggs, over one cup of water and the flour. Beat all thoroughly. Add enough of the burnt sugar to flavor, also vanilla, another half cup of flour, baking-powder and whites of two eggs. Bake in two layers, using remainder of burnt sugar for icing.

Source

The International Jewish Cook Book (1919).

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