Bobota

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 1/2 lb butter, softened
• 6 tablespoons sugar
• 6 eggs, separated
• 2 (8 ounce) boxes corn muffin mix
• 1 1/4 cups milk
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 dash salt
• 1/2-2 teaspoon almond extract
• 2 1/2 cups water
• 3 cups sugar
• 3 lemons (thick slices)
• 1 cinnamon stick

Recipe

• 1 cake: cream butter and then cream in sugar with 6 beaten egg yolks.
• 2 add the muffin mix, milk, baking powder, salt and extract. stir well by hand ( not with mixer ). beat egg whites stiff and fold into mixture. place mixture in a greased 10 x 14 inch pan.
• 3 bake on a 350f oven about 40 minutes or tested done. remove from oven and cool in pan until warm.
• 4 cut into squares or diamonds.
• 5 pour on hot syrup.
• 6 sprinkle with almonds.garnish with maraschino cherries.
• 7 note: make syrup while cake is baking.
• 8 bring all syrup ingredients to a boil and boil until a thickened syrup.( maybe about 20 minutes or less )