Ingredients

  • 1 cup sifted cake flour
  • 1 12 teaspoons baking powder
  • 14 teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 12 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 6 tablespoons hot water
  • 3 tablespoons water
  • 1 12 cups sugar
  • 1 12 lbs ricotta cheese
  • 2 cups finely chopped pecans (measure after you chop)
  • 18 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 cup finely chopped butterscotch chips
  • 13 cup rum
  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 3 tablespoons brown sugar

Method

  • ---Cake---.
  • Sift flour, baking powder and salt together.
  • Beat eggs until very thick and light.
  • Add sugar and continue to beat until mixture will hold a soft peak.
  • Beat in lemon juice.
  • Add hot water, 2 tablespoons at a time and beat until thick after each addition.
  • Fold in flour in small amounts.
  • Pour batter into 2 lightly greased 8" cake pans and bake in a 350 degree oven for 25-30 minutes or until cake springs back from your touch.
  • Allow cake to cool.
  • ---hotbuttered rum---.
  • Melt butter in a small sauce pan.
  • Add rum and brown sugar.
  • Simmer for 5 minutes.
  • ---frosting---.
  • In another sauce pan, dissolve water in sugar over low heat.
  • Beat the sugar syrup into the ricotta.
  • Add cinnamon and beat until smooth and creamy.
  • Add pecans and butterscotch chips.
  • ---toassemble---.
  • Spoon half of the buttered rum over the bottom half of the cake.
  • Frost the bottom layer.
  • Place second layer of cake on top of the frosting.
  • Spoon remaining hot buttered rum over second layer.
  • Frost with remaining frosting.
  • Serve.