Cake: Cream
Cream the butter and sugar, beat in the cocoa, the yolks of eggs well beaten, cinnamon, cloves, and milk, then the flour sifted with the baking powder; last add the whites of eggs whipped to a stiff froth. Bake in a moderate oven.
Devil's Food. 2 cupfuls sugar, cupful butter, 4 eggs, 1 cupful milk, 24 cupfuls flour, 4 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, 2 squares Runkel's Chocolate, ½ teaspoonful McIlhenny's Mexican Vanilla.
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the well-beaten yolks of eggs, then alternately mix with milk and flour sifted with the baking powder, stir in the melted chocolate and vanilla, then the whites of eggs, whip to a dry froth. Bake fifty minutes MRS. CURTIS'S COOKBOOK m a long narrow pan. Cover with a boiled white icing.
Chocolate Marshmallow Cake.
Use the recipe given either for chocolate cake, devil's food, or cocoa sponge, and bake in a shallow pan, letting the batter half fill. It ought to rise to the top of the pan. As soon as the hot cake is taken from the oven, turn it out and cover the top with marshmallows, which have been pulled apart; the soft inside of the sweetmeats will run together into a sort of frosting. When cool, pour over them a frosting made of Runkel's Sweet Chocolate melted over hot water.
Spanish Cake. 1 cupful sugar, cupful butter, 2 eggs, cupful milk, 1½ cupfuls flour, 2 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, Dash salt, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon Cream the butter and sugar, beat in the yolks of eggs, then the flour, with which has been sifted cinnamon, salt, and baking powder, alternating with it the milk; the whites of eggs whipped to a stiff frotl. may be added the last thing. Bake in a large shallow pan and cover the top with caramel frosting. Coffee Cake. 2 cupfuls sugar, 1 cupful butter, 2 tablespoonfuls molasses, 14 cupfuls cold coffee, 3 cupfuls flour, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, teaspoonful cloves, teaspoonful nutmeg, teaspoonful allspice, teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, cupful raisins, cupful currants, cupful citron, 5 eggs.
Cream the butter and sugar, add the molasses and well-beaten yolks of eggs, then sift together the flour, spices, and baking powder. Beat in alternately with the coffee. Dredge the fruit with flour, stir it in, then the whites of eggs. Pour into deep cake tins and bake slowly in a moderate oven.
Pound Cake. 2 cupfuls butter, 2 cupfuls sugar, 10 eggs, 4 cupfuls flour, teaspoonful mace, 2 tablespoonfuls milk.
Cream the butter and sugar, add the yolks of eggs beaten till thick, then the milk, flour, and whites of eggs. Pour into a square tin and bake an hour.