Amaretto Cake

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup Butter
  • 1-1/2 cup Sugar
  • 3 Eggs; separated
  • 2 cup Flour; (sifted)
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 1 tsp Baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 cup Sour cream
  • 1 tsp Grated orange peel
  • 1/2 cup Chopped walnuts
  • 2 Tbsp Sugar
  • 1/4 cup Orange juice
  • 1/3 cup Amaretto

Preparation:

Cream butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar until light and fluffy; beat in egg yolks one at a time. Fold in beaten egg whites. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt, and add to batter a little at a time, alternating with sour cream.

Stir until smooth. Mix in grated orange peel and walnuts and pour into buttered 9 inch tube pan. Bake 50 minutes at 350° F. Mix remaining sugar with orange juice and Amaretto and spoon over cake as soon as it comes out of oven.

Cool before removing from pan.

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