How do you make this icing?
Attention Cake Detectives:
We need your help!
I received an email from Phoebe, granddaughter of this totally cute couple. She wants to replicate this unusual frosting at her grandparents 65th wedding anniversary in a few weeks. (Yes, 65 years together. Wow!)
Do you know how this is done? Here are some facts about this 1945 (I did the math for you) cake from Phoebe's email (information from her grandmother):
Main thing - The cake was frosted right before it was cut! (Yes, this wasn't Ace of Cakes. They didn't need a week and pounds of fondant...they had minutes.)
Grandma says, "The icing was cooked up on the stove and then poured over top of the 3 tiered cake shortly before the cake cutting."
"My grandmother claims it was very runny when it was poured out of the pan but cooled & hardened quickly. The flavor was closer to a boiled icing than a buttercream. In pictures it looks like a drip castle or a fluffy waterfall. The icing has a kind of dull shine to it like meringue."
"My grandmother claims it was very runny when it was poured out of the pan but cooled & hardened quickly. The flavor was closer to a boiled icing than a buttercream. In pictures it looks like a drip castle or a fluffy waterfall. The icing has a kind of dull shine to it like meringue."
Phoebe says for their 50th anniversary they tried to get a caterer to attempt it but the caterer refused & just piped a sort of drippy waterfall design on with buttercream. Let's not let that happen again.
This may not be relevant but one side of the family is very German & most of their favorite baked goods are traditional German ones. Perhaps this is from a German bakery? Also, the wedding took place in suburban Philadelphia in the fall of 1945.
So, interwebs. Have you seen this cake before?! And more importantly, how is it made? Does YOUR grandmother or mother have this cake in the wedding album? Let's make sure Phoebe's Grandpa and Grandma enjoy this cake again! Thanks!
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