Bettina Cake

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  Bettina Cake  Ingredients  

• 1/4  cup  butter
• 1  teaspoon  baking powder
• 1/2  cup  sugar
• 1/4  cup strained orange juice
• 4    egg yolks
• 1/2  teaspoon  orange extract
• 7/8  cup  flour
• 1/2  teaspoon  lemon extract
  

  Directions  

• Cream the butter, add the sugar and mix well.
• Add the egg-yolks which have been well beaten.
• Mix and sift the flour, baking powder and salt, and add these, with the orange juice and the orange and lemon extracts to the first mixture.
• Beat vigorously for two minutes.
• Fill a twelve-inch square pan which has been prepared with waxed paper, with the mixture.
• Bake thirty minutes in a moderate oven.
• When cool, cover with the icing and cut into twelve pieces.
  

  

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  Bettina Icing
  Ingredients  

• 1    egg white
• 1  teaspoon  vanilla
• 1  tablespoon  cream
• 1/2  teaspoon  lemon extract
• 2  cup  powdered sugar
  

  Directions  

• Beat the egg-white, add part of the sugar.
• Add the cream, vanilla and lemon extracts.
• Keep beating.
• Add the rest of the sugar gradually, a little more sugar may be needed.
• Beat the icing till very fluffy and until it will spread without running off the cake.
• Spread each layer.