Lady Baltimore Cake
This Lady Baltimore Cake is a fluffy white sponge cake with a fruit and nut filling is a classic Southern cake thought to have first been served in the early 20th century at Lady Baltimore’s Tea Room in Charleston, South Carolina. Its divine meringue-like frosting has made it popular as a wedding cake.
Source: Reily Products
Ingredients
- sifted Swans Down Cake Flour
- teaspoons – baking powder
- teaspoon – cream of tartar
- butter, softened
- sugar
- milk
- teaspoon – vanilla extract
- egg whites
- dried – whole apricots
- pecans – halved
- FILLING AND FROSTING
- salt
- water
- teaspoons – light corn syrup
- dried apricots, chopped
- raisins
- pecans, chopped