Butter Cake

2 cups sifted cake flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
2 egg yolks
2/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Sift flour once, measure, then add baking powder and salt. Sift all together two more times.
Cream butter; add sugar gradually, beating until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, beating well. Add flour mixture alternately with the milk, beating after each addition until smooth. Stir in vanilla. Pour batter into a greased and floured 8-inch square pan. Bake in a preheated 350° oven for 45 minutes, or until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes; carefully remove to a rack to cool thoroughly.

Fig Frosting

1 egg white, unbeaten
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon finely grated lemon peel
1 drop almond extract
1/3 cup chopped figs
Combine egg white, sugar, water, and lemon juice in top of double boiler, beating with mixer until well mixed. Place over rapidly boiling water, beating constantly, and cook for 4 minutes, or until frosting will stand in peaks. Remove from the boiling water and add lemon peel, almond extract, and figs. Beat until thick enough to spread. Frosts top and sides of an 8-inch square cake.

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Finnish Butter Cake Recipe

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 cups granulated sugar
4 large eggs
1 cup whipping cream
fruit sugar (to garnish)

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
Lightly grease a 10-inch Bundt pan.
In a bowl, stir together the flour, cardamom, cinnamon, baking powder and baking soda.
In a larger bowl, combine the butter and sugar.
Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat until just blended.
Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
Beat in the whipping cream, alternating with the flour mixture until just blended.
Pour into the prepared pan.
Bake 50 to 60 minutes until the tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
Let cool 5 to 10 minutes in the pan; turn out onto a rack.
Sprinkle the top with fruit sugar.
Let cool.

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