Elizabeth II’s Coronation Cake

Ingredients:

½ C butter

1 ½ C sugar

2 eggs

2 oz. red food coloring

2 T cocoa

1 t salt

2 ½ C cake flour

1 C buttermilk

1 t vanilla

1 t soda

1 T vinegar

Directions:

Cream butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time beating well. Make paste of cocoa and red foodcoloring. Add to creamed mixture. Sift cake flour and add salt and soda. Alternating flour and buttermilk, add tocreamed mixture. GENTLY fold in vinegar
until mixed well.

Grease and flour 2-9 inch round cake pans. Fill pans equally and bake at 350 degrees for
30-35 minutes. Allow to completely
cool.

With a thread, cut cake into two equally thick round pieces
until you have four layers. Spread icing between each layer and stack. It will look like a torte. Ice top and sides.

Mock Whipped Cream Icing

5 T flour

½ C milk

1 C butter

1 C sugar

1 t vanilla

Directions:

Blend flour and milk and cook over medium flame until boiling, then turn low, stirring constantly.
When mixture thickens like gravy, remove from heat and allow to thoroughly cool.

Cream together butter, sugar and vanilla and beat until fluffy like whipped cream. Stir in flour
mixture but do not beat.

Cake Flour

To make the cake flour, place ¼ cup + 1 T cornstarch in the bottom of a measuring cup and add all-purpose flour to the 2 ½ C mark.

Thanks to Joanna Waugh!