Whipped Cream Cake

This is an old recipe of my mothers.  I found it in an old tattered handwritten cookbook of hers. 

Whipped Cream Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 cup cream, whipped
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 1/2 cup cold water
• 2 cups flour
• 3 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 4 egg whites, stiffly beaten
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
2. Prepare 2 9-inch round cake pans, or a 9 X 13 pan with either cooking spray, butter and flour, and or parchment paper.
3. Whip cream stiff.  Add salt.  Slowly add sugar.
4. Sift flour and baking powder, 4 times.  Add alternately to cream and sugar with water.
5. Add stiffly beaten egg whites and vanilla.
6. Bake 25-35 minutes.