Title

Lazy Daisy Cake

Subject

eggs

sugar

flour

baking powder

salt

vanilla

butter

shortening

sweet milk

brown sugar

cream

coconut

Description

Lazy Daisy Cake.
Edna Molden.
Beat 4 eggs all together.
2 cups sugar. add to eggs beat
well.
2 cups of flour sifted with
2 teaspoons Baking Powder.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon vanila.
Beat very good.

2 tablespoons. of butter or
shorting.
1 cup sweet milk.
Heat the milk. with butter in
do not boil and pour over
cake batter and. stir till
smoth.

When baked. Pour over.
6 table spoons. Butter
10 table spoons. Brown sugar
4 table spoons. cream.
2 cups coconut.
Put under. oven in broiler
and. Brown.
over.

Back:
While you are mixing your
cake. prepare this frosting
set on top of oven so it well
melt. and stir once in a while
during the time your cake is
baking.
While the frosting is broing
watch very close as it only
takes a few seconds. and
burns. very easy.
This makes a very large cake.
so some times I take just
half. the amount.

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# Lazy Daisy Cake

*Edna Molden*

## Ingredients

- 4 eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups flour, sifted with:
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 Tbsp butter or shortening
- 1 cup sweet milk

## Topping

- 6 Tbsp butter
- 10 Tbsp brown sugar
- 4 Tbsp cream
- 2 cups coconut

## Instructions

1. Beat 4 eggs all together.
2. Add 2 cups sugar to eggs; beat well.
3. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt; add to egg mixture.
4. Add vanilla. Beat very good.
5. Heat the milk with butter; do not boil. Pour over cake batter and stir until smooth.
6. Bake cake.

## Topping

1. While you are mixing your cake, prepare the frosting: set on top of oven so it will melt, and stir once in a while during the time your cake is baking.
2. When cake is baked, combine butter, brown sugar, cream, and coconut; pour over cake.
3. Put under oven broiler and brown.
4. While the frosting is browning, watch very closely as it only takes a few seconds and burns very easily.

*Note: This makes a very large cake; some times I take just half the amount.*

Source

Collection of Recipes Handwritten & Typed, Clipped, Cards, Pamphlet (eBay)

Date

1940s

Contributor

Edna Molden

Rights

Personal/Family

Format

Handwritten recipe card

Identifier

RCA0002-20260509-0030

Coverage

Iowa, US