Lane Cake
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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Cooking tools:
- Stand mixer
- Whisk
- Cake pan
- Oven
- Mixing bowl
- Sifter
- Measuring cup
- Measuring spoon
- Bread knife
- Saucepan
- Instant-read thermometer
- Cake stand
- Spatula
- Pastry brush
- Toothpick
- Cooling rack
- Grater
- Kitchen towel
- Fine-mesh sieve
- Plate
Ingredients
- 16 tbsp. unsalted butter, plus more for greasing pans
- 3 1⁄2 cups cake flour, sifted
- 4 tsp. baking powder
- 1⁄2 tsp. kosher salt
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 cup milk
- 1⁄2 tsp. cream of tartar
- 8 eggs, separated
- 2 1⁄2 cups sugar, divided
- 1⁄2 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
- 1⁄4 tsp. kosher salt
- 4 egg whites
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