Dark Batter.

2 cupfuls coffee sugar.

1 cupful molasses.

1 cupful sour cream.

1 cupful butter.

5 cupfuls flour.

1 teaspoonful soda.

Yolks of 8 eggs, and a whole one.

1 wine-glassful mixed spices, finely powdered.

Put in the pan, in alternate layers of light and dark batter. Bake quickly, like sponge cake. Ice and ornament with chocolate drops. This fills a two-pound mould.