1903 Snow Cake

Got an honorable mention in The Sunday Times Recipes (reference)

Ingredients:

• ½ lbs (250 g) butter

• ½ lbs of powdered (icing) sugar

• 6 eggs

•  3 - 3 ½ cups of flour

Method:

1. Beat butter to a cream

2. Add sugar and beat a little

3. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each one is added

4. Add enough flour for thick pouring consistency but not by any means stiff

5. Bake from an hour to an hour and a half

Coconut cake, by Craig Dugas, flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Submitted by Sarah A. Cole, Riverside-road, East Fremantle