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Mary, Miles City MT

I have lost a recipe for 123 Cake, which I cut from a newspaper probably 25 years ago. It was a specialty cake on the order of a Lane Cake--4 layers with nut & date filling and a white coconut frosting. Thank you for any help.

Recipe: 1234 Lane Cake

Kim, WA

1234 Lane Cake

1 c. butter
2 c. sugar
3 c. flour
4 eggs
1 c. milk
2 tsp. vanilla
3 tsp. baking powder
Lane Cake Icing

Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time. Add milk and vanilla. Mix together flour and baking powder and add them slowly to batter. Bake in 4 greased and floured 9-inch cake pans. (Layers will be very thin.) Frost with Lane Cake Icing.

Lane Cake Icing:
12 egg yolks
1 1/2 c. sugar
1 1/2 sticks butter (no margarine)
1 1/2 c. pecan pieces
1 1/2 c. seedless raisins
Beat egg yolks until light and fluffy; add sugar and butter. Cook in top of double boiler, stirring constantly until mixture begins to hold its shape and thicken. Remove from water; stir in pecans and raisins. Quickly ice between layers, brushing up the sides of the cake until mixture cools and firms. Serves 8.

Recipe: 1-2-3-4 Cake with Seven Minute White Coconut Icing

Betsy at Recipelink.com

Hi Mary,

Here is another recipe for you. This one doesn't have the date filling but it has a white coconut frosting as you describe (the old standby 7-Minute Frosting). If the exact recipe you're seeking doesn't surface you may want to try substituting dates in recipes calling for raisins in the filling.

1-2-3-4- Cake with 7-Minute White Coconut Icing

1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
3 cups flour, sifted
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup milk
2 tsp. vanilla

Cream butter - add sugar and beat thoroughly.

Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition until batter is fluffy.

Sift all dry ingredients together and add alternately to cream mixture with milk and vanilla.

Bake in three 9 inch layer pans that have been greased and floured at 375 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.

7-MINUTE WHITE ICING FOR COCONUT CAKE

3 egg whites
3/4 cup sugar
6 tbsp. light Karo syrup
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla

Place all ingredients except vanilla in top of double boiler. Set top of double boiler onto bottom part of double boiler that contains rapidly boiling water. Beat with electric mixer at high speed for 4 to 5 minutes or until mixture forms peaks. Remove from heat; add vanilla. Beat until cool.

Spread on cake; add coconut after each layer is iced.

Happy Baking!

Betsy
www.recipelink.com

ISO: 1 2 3 4 cake question

Lisa Simmons TN

I would like to thank everyone for posting this recipe as this is the one similar to the one my grandmother used to make, I have one question, when it says flour, is this self-rising or plain?
I'm curious as I haven't made many cakes from scratch but would love to give it a try
thanks in advance for the help.

Lisa...I have not made the 1234 Lane cake, but generally if a recipe requires

Jeanne/FL

self-rising flour it will specify it. If Kim doesn't see this and respond, I would assume you can use regular flour.

1,2,3,4, cake, Plain Flour is used (nt)

Patsy, La