A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband with Bettina's Best Recipes

by Louise Bennett Weaver; Helen Cowles LeCron

¹/₃ C-butter
1 C-sugar
2 eggs
1 C-strong coffee
½ t-vanilla
2 C-flour
3 t-baking powder

Cream the butter, add the sugar and cream the mixture, add the egg-yolks, mix well and add the coffee, vanilla, flour and baking powder. Beat two minutes. Add the stiffly beaten egg-whites. Pour the mixture into two layer-cake pans prepared with waxed paper. Bake twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. When cool, spread with the mocha icing.

Mocha Icing (Twelve portions)

4 T-strong boiling coffee
1 t-vanilla
1½ C-powdered sugar

Mix the vanilla with the coffee. Add the powdered sugar slowly until the proper consistency to spread. Spread over one layer and place the upper layer on the lower. Place the icing on the top layer and on the sides. More sugar may be needed.

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CHAPTER CXXXVI

MILDRED'S PLANS