Lane Cake | Saveur
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.
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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