No. 2. Domino cakes. Cut a layer of cake into two pieces. Cover one with chocolate icing and the other with white icing. While the icing is still soft cut the cake, using a sharp knife, into pieces three inches long and one and a half inches wide.
Put a little decorating icing (No. [16]) into a pastry-bag with plain tube of small opening, and press it through on to the cakes in dots and lines to imitate dominoes. Use white icing for the chocolate pieces, and the same icing mixed with cocoa powder for the white pieces.
No. 3. Marble cakes. Drop any cake mixture from a spoon on to a floured baking-sheet, using about a dessertspoonful of mixture for each cake, and leaving enough space for the cakes to spread. Place on the flat sides icings of three colors and let them run together irregularly to give a marble-like appearance.
No. 4. Hemispheres. Make a cake mixture, using,
¼ cupful of butter,
¼ cupful of powdered sugar,
¾ cupful of pastry flour,
½ teaspoonful of vanilla,
Yolks of two eggs.
Cream together the butter and sugar, add the yolks and flavoring, and then the flour. Make it into balls one inch in diameter, by rolling small portions of the mixture between the hands. Roll the balls in powdered sugar and place them on a floured tin. They will flatten in baking and leave the shape of hemispheres. Bake them in a moderate oven ten to fifteen minutes. Cover the flat sides with icing of different colors and ornament with decorating icing pressed through a tube of small opening.