Raspberry Swirl Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 cup butter
    1 tablespoon butter
    2 cups sugar
    3 cups flour, sifted
    4 teaspoons baking powder
    1 teaspoon salt
    1 1/3 cups milk
    2 teaspoons vanilla
    6 egg whites
    1/2 cup raspberry jelly
    red food coloring
    2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
    1 tablespoon butter, softened
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    2 -3 tablespoons milk
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
    In a large bowl, cream 1 c + 1 T butter and sugar until fluffy.
    Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together.
    Add the flour alternately with the milk to the butter/sugar (begin and end with dry ingredients); add the vanilla.
    In a small mixing bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form and fold gently by hand into the batter.
    Heat jelly until melted; cool slightly.
    Remove 1 c of batter and add jelly; mix well.
    Add enough food coloring to make the batter pink.
    Pour the white batter into a greased and floured Bundt pan.
    Pour jelly batter on top.
    Swirl the raspberry mixture into the cake.
    Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes or until the cake tests done.
    Turn out on a wire rack to cool completely.
    To make the glaze, combine the confectioners sugar, butter and vanilla extract.
    Add in enough milk to produce a slightly runny consistency.
    Pour the glaze over the cake and drizzle with sieved raspberry jam.

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