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Prep Time: 30 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes |
Ready In: 60 Minutes Servings: 4 |
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This cake is served at the Brown Derby at MGM Studios Orlando. It's wonderfully light and tart-sweet. Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups sifted cake flour |
3/4 cup sugar |
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder |
1/2 teaspoon salt |
1/4 cup water |
1/4 cup vegetable oil |
3 eggs, separated |
3 tablespoons grapefruit juice |
1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon rind |
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar |
12 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature |
2 teaspoons lemon juice |
1 teaspoon grated fresh lemon rind |
3/4 cup sifted powdered sugar |
6 -8 drops yellow food coloring |
1 (16 ounce) can grapefruit sections, well drained, reserving 2 tablespoons juice from grapefruit sections |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in large mixing bowl.
3. Make a well in center of dry ingredients.
4. Add water, vegetable oil, eggs, grapefruit juice and lemon rind.
5. Beat until smooth.
6. Beat egg whites with cream of tartar until stiff but not dry.
7. Gently fold egg whites into cake batter.
8. Pour into an ungreased 10 inch cake pan and bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes.
9. When cool, slice cake in half horizontally.
10. Frost.
11. Beat cheese until fluffy.
12. Add lemon juice and rind.
13. Gradually add sugar and beat until blended; add food coloring. Add reserved 2 tablespoons of grapefruit juice and blend.
14. Divide frosting in half and add roughly chopped grapefruit sections to one half.
15. Spread this mixture on bottom half of cake.
16. Top with several grapefruit sections.
17. Cover with other cake layer and frost remainder of cake.
18. Garnish with remaining grapefruit sections.
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