For the Filling.
- ½ cup of cream
- 3 eggs
- 1½ tsps. of vanilla
- 4 tbsps. of sugar
Preparation: Cream the butter, then mix with sugar, yolks of eggs, flour, and lastly the baking powder and beaten whites of eggs. The chocolate is grated and mixed with one-half of the batter. Bake in four layers, 2 light or yellow ones and 2 dark ones containing chocolate.
The filling is made by mixing well: cream, yolks of eggs, vanilla and sugar and cooking it in a double boiler to a thick cream, stirring constantly. Let it get cold, mix with the beaten whites of eggs and spread it between the layers, putting them together light and dark alternately. The cake may be covered with a chocolate frosting.
No. 30—LAYER CAKE WITH JELLY FILLING.
- ½ lb. of butter
- ½ lb. of sugar
- 5 eggs
- ½ lb. of flour
- 2 heaping tsps. of baking powder
- Jelly for the filling
Preparation: Cream the butter with sugar, add the yolks of eggs, then gradually work in the flour, baking powder and beaten whites of eggs. Bake in three layers and when these are cooled off, spread jelly over them and place one on the other. If you like, cover the cake with a white frosting.
No. 31—LAYER CAKE WITH BANANA FILLING.
- 1 cup of butter
- 2 cups of sugar
- 2½ cups of flour
- 6 eggs
- ½ cup of milk
- 2 heaping tsps. of baking powder
For the Filling.