CAKE ICING FOR VARIOUS CAKES
Cook together 2 cups of granulated sugar, 1¼ cups of water a little less than 12 minutes. Just before it reaches the soft ball stage, beat in quickly 25 marshmallows; when dissolved and a thick, creamy mass, spread between layers and on top of cake.
This is a delicious creamy icing when made according to directions. If sugar and water be cooked one minute too long, the icing becomes sugary instead of creamy. One-half the above quantity will ice the top of a cake nicely.
MARY'S RECIPE FOR "HOT MILK" SPONGE CAKE
For this cake was used:
- 2 cups granulated sugar.
- 4 eggs.
- 2⅛ cups flour.
- 1½ teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
- 1 cup boiling hot milk.
Separate the eggs, place yolks in a bowl, add the sugar and beat until creamy.
Add the stiffly beaten whites of eggs alternately with the sifted flour and baking powder; lastly add the cup of boiling hot milk; should the milk not be rich, add one teaspoon of butter to the hot milk. The cake batter should be thin as griddle cake batter, pour into a tube pan and place at once in a very moderate oven; in about 15 minutes increase the heat and in about 25 minutes more the cake, risen to the top of pan, should have commenced to brown on top.