Categories: Cakes 
      Yield: 8 servings 
  
    1/2 c  Butter                              1 ts Baking powder 
      1 c  Sugar                               1 ts Baking soda 
      2    Eggs                                1 pn Salt 
      1 c  Sour cream                          1 ts Vanilla 
      2 c  Flour, sifted                  
 
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    1/2 c  Sugar                               1 ts Cinnamon 
    1/2 c  Walnuts, chopped fine          
 
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      1 c  Confectioners sugar                 1 ts Almond extract 
      2 tb Milk                            
  
  1.  Mix the softened butter, sugar, eggs, and sour cream together in a 
  large bowl. Set aside. 
   
  2.  In a sifter, add the flour, baking powder, soda and salt, and sift 
  gradually into the butter mixture. Blend well. Add the vanilla. 
   
  3.  Pour half the cake batter in a greased 13 x 9 x 2 pan. Sprinkle with 
  half of the topping mixture, and add the remaining cake mixture. Sprinkle 
  with the remaining topping mixture. If you wish, you may swirl the topping 
  mixture into the cake mixture. 
   
  4.  Bake at 350F for 35 minutes or until the cake springs back. 
   
  TOPPING: To prepare, mix all ingredients together. 
   
  ICING:  Mix all ingredients together in a bowl and set aside. While the 
  cake is still warm, pour on top of cake. 
   
  Source: Deloris Scaia, Alliance Ohio  (my mom's best friend for 50 years) 
   
  Typed for you by: Linda Fields, Cyberealm BBS, Watertown, NY 1993