Instructions: Method: Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in vanilla. Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form; fold into batter. Spoon batter into 2 waxed paper-lined and greased 9-inch round cakepans. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans and cool completely. Spread filling between layers of cake and chill. Spread top and sides of cake with frosting.

Yield: one 2-layer cake.

Filling: Combine all ingredients, beating until smooth. Chill.

Yield: about
1 1/2 cups

Frosting: Combine sugar and egg whites (at room temperature) in top of a double boiler; add water, and beat on low speed of electric mixer for 30 seconds or just until blended. Place over boiling water; beat constantly on high speed of electric mixer about 7 minutes or until stiff peaks form.

Remove from heat. Add rum, and beat 2 additional minutes or until frosting is thick enough to spread.

Yield: enough for one 2-layer cake

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