Carmel Cake

Cake Ingredients

• 3/4 of a pound of butter
• Ten egg whites
• Three cups of granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup of water
• One quart of unsifted flour
• One teaspoon of Dixie baking powder
  

Topping Ingredients

• Four cups of brown sugar
• One cup of cream or milk
• 1/2 cup of butter
• 1/2 cup of vanilla

Directions

1. Prepare Cake Ingredients. 
2. Bake in jelly cake pan.
3. Mix Topping Ingredients thoroughly.   
4. Spread on cake.
5. Crush up a few pecans. 
6. Sprinkle on cake.
7. Top cake with half pecans.

Source — New Orleans Cookbook
Prepared by Carson Millikin
Louisiana Anthology
March 15, 2022