Pink Azalea Cake

Name: Pink Azalea Cake
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Ingredients: 1 , recipe white layer cake (enough to make three 8-inch layers); , Red food coloring; 6 cups, seven-minute icing (included in White Layer Cake recipe); 1 cup, chopped strawberries, raspberries, or maraschino cherries; 1/2 cup, chopped toasted almonds, walnuts, or pecans; 1 tablespoon, Kirsch (optional)

Desserts or Baked Goods
Cakes
Great American Cakes

Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2009

Similar to Lady Baltimore Cake, Pink Azalea Cake is a three-layer white cake swathed in billowy seven-minute icing. It's the pretty pink hue-of the middle cake layer, the frosting, and the fruit-nut filling-that gives the cake its name and makes it perfect for springtime. Pink Azalea Cake is a cousin to other fanciful flower-named cakes that were popular mid-century, such as the Brown-Eyed Susan and the Daffodil Cake.

SERVES 8 to 10

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

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