Cut the cake horizontally into five or six slices of uniform width. Spread each slice with jelly—first the tart, then the sweet, and fit them into their former places. Ice thickly all over, so as to leave no sign of the slices; set in a slow oven for a few minutes to harden; then, in a sunny window.
This is an easy way of making a showy cake out of a plain one.
Fanny’s Cake.
1 pound powdered sugar.
1 pound flour—Hecker’s “prepared.”
¼ pound butter rubbed to a cream with the sugar.
8 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately.
1 coffee-cupful sweet almonds—blanched.