Ribbon Cakes Recipe
Ribbon Cakes is an amazingly delicious recipe. An easy to prepare dessert recipe, this Ribbon Cake is a dish that you will definitely love to share with your friends and family.
Ingredients
3 cups unsifted regular all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup (1/2 lb.) soft butter or margarine
2 whole eggs plus 1 egg white
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup jelly or jam (plum, blackberry,or raspberry jelly, or apricot jam)
2 tablespoons sugar
Directions
In a large bowl, mix together flour, the 1 cup sugar, and baking powder.
Blend in butter with hands or pastry blender until like cornmeal.
Add eggs and vanilla; work into a stiff dough.
Divide into two balls, one twice the size of the other.
On a heavily floured board 1/4 to 1/2 cup flour), roll out the larger ball to 1/8-inch thickness; place in a cooky pan (11 by 15 1/2 inches), smoothing out to edges and patching corners.
Spread jelly over the top.
Roll out remaining dough to 1/8-inch thickness and cut in 1/2-inch-wide strips; place diagonally across jelly 1/2 inch apart.
Sprinkle the 2 tablespoons sugar over the top.
Start baking in a 375° oven.
The edges will be done first.
When edges start to brown (about 20 minutes), take pan from oven; cut off and remove about a 3-inch strip all around the edges.
Return pan to oven for 10 minutes; remove.
Cut into about 1 by 2-inch rectangles.
Blend in butter with hands or pastry blender until like cornmeal.
Add eggs and vanilla; work into a stiff dough.
Divide into two balls, one twice the size of the other.
On a heavily floured board 1/4 to 1/2 cup flour), roll out the larger ball to 1/8-inch thickness; place in a cooky pan (11 by 15 1/2 inches), smoothing out to edges and patching corners.
Spread jelly over the top.
Roll out remaining dough to 1/8-inch thickness and cut in 1/2-inch-wide strips; place diagonally across jelly 1/2 inch apart.
Sprinkle the 2 tablespoons sugar over the top.
Start baking in a 375° oven.
The edges will be done first.
When edges start to brown (about 20 minutes), take pan from oven; cut off and remove about a 3-inch strip all around the edges.
Return pan to oven for 10 minutes; remove.
Cut into about 1 by 2-inch rectangles.
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