Cream butter; add sugar, flour in which baking powder has been sifted, and milk, and beat well; add whites of eggs beaten stiff and nut meats; then add chocolate and vanilla. Pour into buttered gem pans and bake in hot oven twenty-five minutes.
COCOA FRAPPÉ
Plate XII. For Receipt see [page 295]
Simple Butter Cake
- ½ cup butter
2 cups sugar
4 egg yolks
1 cup milk
3 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
4 egg whites
1 teaspoon flavoring
¼ teaspoon salt
Follow directions for making [Butter Cake], and bake in a loaf in a moderate oven forty minutes, or in rounds twenty minutes.
Currant Cake
Add one cup currants to [Simple Butter Cake]. Bake in loaves or rounds.
Layer Cake
Bake [Simple Butter Cake] in four square shallow pans. Fill with [Lemon Cream], [Cocoanut Cream], [Chocolate Cream], or Jelly.