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Fancy Cakes (Petits Fours)

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IN- GREDIENTS. Any sweet paste or slices of sponge or pound cake, icing of plain sugar, or of any fancy kind, such as rose or chocolate; small crystalised fruits, strips of angelica or candied-peel, blanched almonds, pistachio nuts, or any garnish that taste may direct.

FARMERS' FRUIT CAKE.

These pretty little cakes, which cost so much to buy from a pastrycook, can easily be made at home. The simplest mode of doing so is to stamp out small rounds, stars, PETITS FOURS. &c., from slices of stale sponge or pound cake with a fancy cutter; to cover them with icing, and, before it is quite set, to garnish them, according to taste, with the ingredients named above.

"Fill your baskets high
"Fill your baskets high

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