Stir to a cream a half cup butter, 1½ cups pulverized sugar, 1 tablespoonful milk and 1 teaspoonful vanilla. It is then ready to use for icing a cake.
COCOANUT LAYER CAKE
- 2 cups sugar.
- ½ cup butter and lard, mixed.
- 3 eggs (yolks only).
- 1 cup milk.
- 3 cups flour, sifted several times with the
- 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar and 1 teaspoonful soda (saleratus).
Mix like an ordinary cake.
THE FILLING.
To the stiffly beaten whites of 3 eggs add 1 cup of pulverized sugar. Spread this on each one of the layers of the cake and on top. Strew a half of a grated cocoanut over. To the other half of grated cocoanut add 4 tablespoonfuls of pulverized sugar and strew over top of the cake.