Lane Cake | Saveur

Lane Cake | Saveur

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This indulgent cake with a bourbon-butter-pecan filling and billowy egg-white icing was made famous when it appeared in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Ingredients

  • 16 tbsp. unsalted butter, plus more for greasing pans
  • 3 <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> cups cake flour, sifted
  • 4 tsp. baking powder
  • <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> tsp. kosher salt
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 cup milk
  • <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> tsp. cream of tartar
  • 8 eggs, separated
  • 2 <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> cups sugar, divided
  • <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> cup bourbon or brandy
  • 8 tbsp. unsalted butter, cubed
  • 1 cup raisins
  • 1 cup chopped pecans
  • 1 cup grated coconut
  • 2 tbsp. light corn syrup
  • <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>4</sub> tsp. kosher salt
  • 4 egg whites

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