10 Cakes Husbands Like Best: From Spry's Recipe Round-up

When I recently asked women to send me recipes for the cakes their husbands like best, I expected to get a lot of good ideas. But I never dreamed they’d arrive by the truckload! I’ve been simply snowed under—thousands and thousands of wonderful recipes!
When all the recipes were sorted and listed, we had what amounts to a real popularity poll. Certain kinds of cake proved to be “husbands’ favorites,” time and again, all over the country!
So we took the best recipes we could find for the ten kinds of cake wives said their husbands like best. We checked them for easy making as well as luscious eating ... and here they are! They’re tested, they’re sure-fire and you’ll find they make the most delicious cakes any husband could ever ask for.
Of course, since they’re Spry cakes, you’ll find they’re all higher, lighter, better-tasting! For Spry is homogenized, pre-creamed to mix more easily with dry ingredients. And Spry is the only kind of shortening specially made to combine with the liquids your cake recipes call for. That’s why your Spry cakes are so high ... so light ... so velvety-textured. You’ll bake a better cake, be a better cook, with Homogenized Spry.
And now you can run your own popularity poll—bake each one of these ten beauties, and see which wins with HIM. Every one of them will win you compliments, and among them he’ll find his favorite cake!
Oven temperature: 350°F. (moderate)
Baking time: 25-30 min.
Yield: 2 round 9″ layers
Add ...½ cup Homogenized Spry , 3 ounces melted chocolate , 1 cup thick sour milk or buttermilk , 1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat ...200 strokes (2 min. by hand or on mixer at low speed). Scrape bowl and spoon or beater.
Add ...2 unbeaten eggs
Beat ...200 strokes (same as above)