Ermine Frosting

Nostalgia and American baking books

Image from General Foods Kitchen cookbook 1959

Here’s a short (and impromptu) post entirely prompted by Nigella Lawson’s Recipe of the Day; a Vanilla Layer Cake with Ermine Icing described as ‘the sort of cake you’d find in an old-fashioned diner of your dreams: a majestic creation, frosted with fluffy, super-sweet buttercream, just made to stand aloft and enticingly on the counter.’ Amen.