Spice Cake with Orange Butter Frosting

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Spice Cake with Orange Butter Frosting
I found these amazing recipes in The Encyclopedia of Cooking from 1948, a Christmas present from my mom. Thanks, mom!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Servings
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Instructions
  1. For Cake: Sift the flour, measure and resift 3 times with the baking powder and salt. Combine the spices and mix thoroughly with boiling water. Cream the butter until soft and smooth, blend in 3/4 C of the sugar, and add the beaten egg yolks. Beat until light and fluffy. Stir in spice mixture; then add flour mixture and milk alternately, beginning and ending with flour and beating until smooth after each addition. Beat egg whites, add remaining 1/4 C sugar, and continue beating until very stiff; fold into batter. Turn into two 8-inch cake pans which have been lined with thin plain paper in bottom. Bake in a moderate oven (350F) for about 25 minutes, until springy when pressed lightly with the finger tips. Cool 5 minutes before removing from pans and then turn out and cool thoroughly on cake racks. Put together with orange frosting.
  2. For Frosting: Cream butter until very soft and smooth; then add sugar gradually, creaming thoroughly. Add salt and orange rind. Gradually work in the orange juice using just enough to produce a smooth spreading consistence. Spread on cake (Sufficient for two 8-inch layers)
Recipe Notes

To make cake flour:  For 2 C cake flour,  mix 1 3/4 C all-purpose flour and 1/4 C corn starch.

I discovered that I had no round cake pans, so I ended up making a single layer cake in a 10" spring form pan.  Still took about 25 minutes, maybe closer to 30 in my oven, but the temperature was a bit less according to my oven thermometer.

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Nutrition Facts
Spice Cake with Orange Butter Frosting
Amount Per Serving
Calories 722 Calories from Fat 171
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 19g 29%
Saturated Fat 12g 60%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.2g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
Cholesterol 101mg 34%
Sodium 298mg 12%
Potassium 59mg 2%
Total Carbohydrates 131g 44%
Dietary Fiber 0.3g 1%
Sugars 88g
Protein 6g 12%
Vitamin A 15%
Vitamin C 2%
Calcium 9%
Iron 17%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.