Velvet Cake Recipe

Ingredients for Velvet Cake

• ½ cup butter
• 1½ cups flour
• 1½ cups sugar
• ½ cup corn-starch
• Yolks 4 eggs
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ cup cold water
• Whites 4 eggs
• 1/3 cup almonds, blanched, and shredded

Instructions

1. Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs well beaten, and water.
2. Mix and sift flour, corn-starch, and baking powder, and add to first mixture; then add whites of eggs beaten until stiff.
3. After putting in pan, cover with almonds and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
4. Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven.