Southern lane cake

Lady Baltimore cake is an elegant, showstopping dessert made from layers of airy cake, chewy fruit, crunchy nuts, and a cloud-like frosting. Here is how to make it.

The History of Lane Cake and a Traditional Recipe for this Classic Southern Boozy Layer Cake From Food Historian Gil Marks.

This cake improves in flavor as it ages and mellows. Covered and uncut, it may be made two days before serving, and it doesn't need to be refrigerated.

A classic Southern recipe, Lane Cake (or Alabama Lane Cake) is layered sponge cake with a boozy raisin-coconut filling and topped with white frosting.

Emma Rylander Lane created her Lane Cake back in the late Victorian era, and it soon became a Southern classic. In 1967, the original recipe - first published in Lane's cookbook back in 1898 - was brought up-to-date by her granddaughter (and namesake) Emma Rylander Law, and that's the one featured here.

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Recipe, baking tips, and history of Lane Cake, a blue ribbon winner from an 1898 county fair and a Southern favorite.

The History of Lane Cake and a Traditional Recipe for this Classic Southern Boozy Layer Cake From Food Historian Gil Marks.

Alabama - Lane Cake So Alabama - since you’re up first, I’m basing my selection for your State Sweet on The Encyclopedia of Alabama and a quote from To Kill A Mockingbird . I hope this suits y’all, but if not - we can have a second entry so let me know. History OK, According to the Encyclopedia of Alabama, the Lane Cake was created by Alabama native, Emma Rylander Lane and was included in her cookbook, Some Good Things to Eat, in 1898. The consists of white sponge cake layers with a filling…

Born in Clayton, Alabama, more than 100 years ago, the bourbon-soaked Lane Cake is one of the most famous Southern layer cakes.