Cream shortening; add sugar slowly; add egg yolk and mix well. Mix in milk; add flour, baking powder, salt, spices and cocoa which have been sifted together. Put this batter by spoonfuls and same amount of white batter alternately into greased loaf pan but do not mix. Bake in moderate oven about 45 minutes. Cover with white icing, [page 16].
Marble Cake II
Make plain cake [page 10]; save one-third of batter and add to it 1-1/2 squares melted unsweetened chocolate. Drop by spoonfuls into white batter after putting in pan. Bake in moderate oven about 45 minutes.
Feather Cocoanut Cake
1-1/2 cups flour
7/8 cup sugar
2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
2 tablespoons melted shortening
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1/2 cup fresh grated cocoanut
Sift flour, sugar and baking powder. Add shortening and beaten egg to milk and add to dry ingredients. Mix well, add flavoring and cocoanut and bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven 35 to 45 minutes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, or ice with white icing, [page 16] with grated cocoanut sprinkled on top.
Chocolate Layer Cake
1/3 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup milk
1-3/4 cups flour
4 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream shortening; add sugar gradually, beating well; add beaten egg, one-half the milk and mix well; add one-half the flour which has been sifted with salt and baking powder; add remainder of milk, then remainder of flour and flavoring; beat after each addition. Bake in greased layer cake tins in moderate oven 15 to 20 minutes.