Cake Icing
- Title
- Cake Icing
- Subject
- sugar
- Karo syrup
- water
- egg white
- marshmallows
- Description
- Cake Icing
1 1/3 c sugar (When sugar
1 tb. Karo syrup and
1/2 c water water comes
1 egg white to boil add
6 marshmellows 2 tb of syrup
to beaten egg whites and
let rest of syrup boil until
spins a thread. add to
remaining whites if too stiff
Back:
add few drops of water.
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# Cake Icing
## Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 Tbsp Karo syrup
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 egg white
- 6 marshmallows
## Instructions
1. Combine sugar, Karo syrup, and water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil.
2. When the sugar and water mixture comes to a boil, add 2 Tbsp of the syrup to beaten egg whites.
3. Let the rest of the syrup continue to boil until it spins a thread.
4. Add the remaining hot syrup to the remaining egg whites.
5. If the icing is too stiff, add a few drops of water. - Creator
- Alice Yetka, Martha Yetka
- Source
- RCA0006 - The Yetka family collection that started the project (eBay)
- Date
- 1950s
- Rights
- Personal/Family
- Format
- Typed recipe card
- Identifier
- RCA0006-20260609-0338
- Coverage
- Oregon, US
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Citation
Alice Yetka, Martha Yetka, “Cake Icing,” Recipe Card Archive, accessed November 11, 2026, https://recipecardarchive.com/items/show/1721.