1, 2, 3, 4 Cake

Hey we're back! And you know you couldn't have a wedding show without something sweet, could you son

Can't! Can't! Well this is a very simple cake. It's called a 1-2-3-4 cake

We're gonna use one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, and four eggs

Sounds good. One, two, three, four. So I want you to start by putting your butter in there, adding your sugar, and beating it till it's creamy

And then to that, I want you to add one egg at the time

And then alternately, I want you to add your self-rising flour that's been sifted

I want you to begin with your flour and end with your flour. Otherwise, your batter won't be as creamy

And while you're doing that, I'm going to make the filling for this lemon cake

And I'm going to take this other half a stick of butter. The cake is kind of a simple cake

This is what really sets it apart. it apart. All the flavors and the icing and the filling. I use this basic recipe Jamie to make

so many cakes. Alright I'm gonna add a cup and a half of sugar and I'm gonna need eight egg yolks

I've got six already in the bowl. This is kind of looking like butter. Is this creamy enough

You want it really, really nice and creamy. And then add one egg at the time and let it just cream up after every egg All right I going to toss in eight egg yolks

And I'm not going to have to temper these because our dish is completely cold right now

But I'm safe there. So we're going to stir that into the sugar and butter

I'm going to add the juice of three lemons. and the zest of three lemons

So this filling is going to be real, real tart. So I'm going to stir this over a rolling ball

until it gets thick. How are you doing, son? That's the last of the dry

You got the cake ready? Well, that works out perfect because my lemon filling is done

and I'm going to take this off and move it to the side because we have to let this cool

Okay, Mom, so I'm going to put these batter in these... Mm-hmm. All you need to do now, I greased and floured your pans for you

All you want to do is evenly divide your batter, and that's very important that it be as even as you can possibly get it

And while you're doing that, I'm going to come over here and I'm going to make our divinity icing

In my double boiler over here, son, I have a cup and a half of sugar

a fourth of a teaspoon of crema tartar. I'm just going to stir that together

I've got the whites of two eggs. I gonna stir that in And then I gonna add a third of a cup of just plain tap water

And then I'm gonna beat this for seven minutes. And I want to show you a trick now. When you're

preparing your cakes for the oven, I like to drop them, and that will cause the air bubbles to rise

the top. And you can see the bubbles coming to the top after you drop it

That's a neat trick. Isn't that a neat trick? All right, now what I need you to do now is put those in the oven

We're gonna put them on a 350 degree preheated oven. We're gonna bake them for

about 25 minutes. And when you put your pans in there, make sure that the pans

don't touch each other. Why's that? I don't know. It may be an old wives tale, but

Mama and Grandma just told me not to let them touch, so I don't let them touch

All right, I've already got three cakes out of the oven. It's cool

You can bring that rack over here, and if you would, you'd be stacking the cakes together on our cake stand

and filling them with the lemon filling, and the lemon filling's right over there

All right, now I wanna just show you a little thing that really helps me when I'm doing cakes

I dabble just a little bit of that filling or icing, whatever I'm doing with it

Like a tasty glue. Yeah yeah and it doesn take but just a little drop just enough to kind of hold your cake in place That great All right so pick up your cakes and take your hands and run around the side to get rid of

the loose crumbs. See if it's in the center. All right, and then you'll want to make sure you have

some toothpicks handy when you get ready to stack the other one so our cake won't look like the

leaning towel of peas on us. If you want to, you can poke your cake with a fork, and that'll allow

that lemon filling to go down in there. So I'm going to add a teaspoon of vanilla right here at

the end, and if you would just help me by lifting this bowl out of here for me. Make sure it's not

too hot for you now. Okay, I'm just gonna bring it right over here and just beat it for a couple

of minutes until I have that vanilla. This looks dumb, huh? How about that? That's perfect

Looks delicious. All right, I'm gonna start icing our cake, and I like to start by dropping some

icing in a dollop on the side of the cake and then I just kind of let it calm down just like that