Name: Mary Clare Leader
\nClass Year: 1980
\nCountry of Residence: Lebanon<\/p>\n
Serves <\/span><\/i>8-12<\/span>. Takes approx. <\/span><\/i>1 hr.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ingredients:<\/span><\/p>\n Cake: Topping: Instructions:<\/span><\/p>\n Cake: Topping: Source:<\/span><\/p>\n The Wolf Trap Picnic Cookbook<\/span><\/i>, coord. Janet M. Fesler (Vienna, VA: Wolf Trap Assoc., 1976).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Name: Mary Clare Leader Class Year: 1980 Country of Residence: Lebanon Nutmeg Feather Cake Serves 8-12. Takes approx. 1 hr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33263,33267],"tags":[146,33270,33267,33271],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desserts-and-cakes","category-holiday-edition","tag-cake","tag-festive-desserts","tag-holiday-edition","tag-nutmeg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1\/2 cup (113 gm) butter
\n1-1\/2 cups (301 gm) sugar
\n3 eggs, beaten
\n2 cups (256 gm) flour
\n1\/4 tsp (1.5 gm) salt
\n1 tsp (4 gm) baking powder
\n1 tsp (4 gm) baking soda
\n1 cup (237 ml) buttermilk (I add 1 tbsp\/15ml lemon juice or vinegar to a cup of milk to make a buttermilk substitute if I don’t find it in a shop)
\n2 tsp (8 gm) nutmeg
\n1\/2 tsp (2.5 ml) vanilla (extract liquid)<\/p>\n
\n6 tbsp (85 gm) butter
\n2\/3 cup (135 gm) brown sugar
\n1\/4 cup (60 ml) heavy cream
\n1 cup (100 gm) shredded coconut
\n1\/2 tsp (2.5 ml) vanilla<\/p>\n
\nIn a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until the mixture is light in color and fluffy.
\nBeat in the eggs.
\nSift together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
\nTo the egg mixture, add the dry ingredients alternately with the buttermilk, and blend well.
\nMix in the nutmeg and vanilla.
\nPour the batter into 2 greased 9-inch cake pans (lined with parchment paper if you prefer).
\nBake at 350 degrees F for 25-30 minutes, or until done.
\n(test for doneness by inserting a toothpick into the center of each cake; when it comes out clean, the cake is done)
\nRemove from oven. Cool slightly (about 10 minutes) and remove cakes from pans to cool further on a rack.
\nIce (when cool) with the following topping (or any other icing you prefer) (or not at all, which is my preference).<\/p>\n
\nPreheat oven to broil.
\nCombine all the ingredients in a saucepan and heat until the butter melts.
\nSpread the mixture on the warm cake.
\nBroil briefly until the topping is light brown. Cool.<\/p>\n