Milky Way Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

8 Milky Way candy bars (2.15 oz. each)
1 c. butter or margarine
2 c. sugar
4 large eggs, separated
1 1/4 c. buttermilk
1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. pecans, chopped
6 sq. (6 oz.) semi-sweet chocolate

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325\u00b0.
Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Melt candy bars and butter, stirring frequently, in a large, heavy pan over low heat.
Remove from heat and stir in sugar.
Combine egg yolks, buttermilk and baking soda in a small bowl until blended.
Combine flour and salt.
Add to candy mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
Stir in pecans.
In a clean bowl, beat egg whites until stiff.
Fold into batter.
Pour into prepared pan.
Bake 1 1/4 hours or until cake is set and pulls away from sides of pan. Unmold and cool completely.
Melt chocolate in double boiler. Spread over cooled cake.
Yields 16 servings.