Funny this should come up in a thread. I just read the recipe in the latest Disney Magazine:
Grapefruit Cake
The Hollywood Brown Derby
Disney-MGM Studios
Cream-cheese frosting:
8oz cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp sugar
3 pink grapefruit sections
1/2 tsp powdered gelatin
2 tbsp grapefruit juice
1/2 cup heavy cream
Blend the cream cheese and the sugar until smooth. Mix in 3 grapefruit sections. Dissolve the gelatin in the grapefruit juice and stir to mix. Heat the juice in a saucepan, then add to the cream cheese mixture. In a separate bowl, whip the cream to a soft peak. Fold it into the mix and refrigerate for about 1 hour.
Grapefruit cake:
3 cups flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
6 eggs, separated
6 tbsp grapefruit juice
1 tsp grated lemon rind
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
10 pink grapefruit sections
Heat oven to 350F. Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl. Form a well in the center of the dry ingredients and fill it with water, oil, egg yolks, grapefruit juice, and lemon rind. Beat until smooth. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites with the cream of tartar until stiff but not dry. Fold into mix.
Pour batter into 2 greased or non-stick 9-inch cake pans. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched. Cool the cakes on a rack, then remove them from the pans.
Frost the top of one cake, then break up 2 grapefruit sections and scatter them on top of the fronsting. Top with the second cake and frost completely. Garnish with the remaining grapefruit slices.
Serves 6 to 8.
I've never had the Brown Derby's grapefruit cake, but if it's the same, I better visit there sometime!
