Polar cap cake

6 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
9 Egg Whites
1¼ cup Sifted Flour
¼ teaspoon Salt
4 Egg Yolks
1½ teaspoon Cream of Tartar
¼ cup Yukon Jack
2 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
¼ cup Chopped Walnuts
1 cup + 1/4 C Granulated Sugar
Polar Cap Cake Glaze:
½ cup Yukon Jack
⅓ cup Water
3 tablespoons Butter
1 cup Confectioner's Sugar
¼ cup Granulated Sugar
¼ cup Chopped Nuts

Directions

Serves: 10-12

In large bowl, beat egg whites, salt, cream of tartar and vanilla until soft peaks form. Slowly add 1 cup sugar continuing to beat.

Fold in flour in 4 parts. In seperate bowl, beat yolks, Yukon Jack and remaining ¼ C sugar until pale yellow. Sprinkle nuts in bottom of ungreased 10" tube pan. Pour in batter. Bake in preheated 375 oven 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool on rack 15 minutes.

Polar Cap Cake Glaze In saucepan, combine Yukon Jack, butter gran.

sugar and water. Heat, stirring, just to dissolve. Do not boil. With fork, poke holes in cake. Drizzle with ½ glaze. Cool cake additional 10 minutes. To remaining glaze, mix in conf. sugar. Remove cake from pan. Frost. Sprinkle with chopped nuts.

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