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White Wedding Cake Recipe

A Traditional Recipe For Wedding Cake Once Served At A White House Wedding

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Here's a white wedding cake recipe that carries with it an illustrious background. Mrs. Betty Lyles Wilson, a noted cake maker of her day, used this vintage white cake recipe to bake a small bride's cake for the White House wedding of President Woodrow Wilson's daughter.

Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre (1887-1933), a Princeton graduate, was the second daughter of President Woodrow Wilson. At age 26, she married Francis Bowes Sayre in the famous East Room of the White House on November 25, 1913. Her famous wedding cake was baked in the shape of a heart.

Jessie Woodrow Wilson's Bride's Cake Recipe

This white bride cake recipe was taken from one of Mom's old recipe scrapbooks, circa 1921.

The charming Bride's Cake (above) was baked by Miss Mary Lyles Wilson's mother, Mrs. Betty Lyles Wilson, at the time a noted dietician and cake maker for the White House wedding of Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson (Mrs. Sayre) in 1913.

Directions:

Cream 1 cup shortening and 2 cups sugar together well. Sift 5 teaspoons baking powder, 4-1/2 cups flour, and 1/4 teaspoon salt together five times; add alternately a little at a time with 1-1/4 cups sweet milk, and beat thoroughly. Add 8 egg whites which have been beaten stiff, and 1 teaspoon almond extract, and 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract last.

Bake in slow oven at 325°F until perfectly firm to the touch, or about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Makes one 9-inch round loaf.

Decorate the cake a traditional white.

East Room of White House, circa 1913.

Enjoy a traditional white wedding cake recipe from a White House wedding. This delicious white cake is suitable for serving on any special occasion, and its history makes it a great conversation piece.

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