1900 to 1916 Cake #4

Lady Baltimore Cake

The Lady Baltimore cake is filled with walnuts, raisins, and sherry soaked figs and topped with boiled sugar icing. This cake was baked at the Women's Exchange tearoom in Charleston, South Carolina in the early 1900's. It is believed that the author, Owen Wister, was inspired to write a romantic novel after eating a piece of this cake. The story is about a man who is having second thoughts about getting married. This man goes into a cake shop to buy the Lady Baltimore cake as his wedding cake and ends up falling in love with the woman who takes his order, and in the end marries her-thanks to the cake. After his book came out, newspapers printed and kept reprinting the recipe for the cake and it became the cake of 1906 and remained popular through the 1930's.

My Experience:

The Lady Baltimore cake was expensive and labor intensive. It has 17 different ingredients and took about 4 and half hours to complete. And once again this cake called for my nemesis; The Seven Minute Frosting!

I once again failed at getting the right consistency for this frosting but it still tasted good, the frosting I mean. This cake is for a certain palette and that is definitely not mine. Between the texture of the figs and the punch of the sherry, it was too much for my taste-buds. A lemony sugar syrup filling goes onto the cake layers which made the cake part pretty delicious.

I didn't find anyone who particularly liked this one and I understand why. i posted more pictures because there were a lot more steps to putting this cake together. Check out the great mess I made of the icing this time:)