Apple Cream Cake

One cup sugar, 1 egg, 1-3 cup butter, 1/2 cup sweet milk, 1 1-3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Bake in 2 round pans. Grate 2 fine flavored apples, put in the beaten white of 1 egg and 2-3 cup sugar. Beat with egg beater till very stiff and spread between and on top of cake. Should be made just before needed for use.

Berries may be used instead of apples.

Minnehaha Cake

Beat 1/2 cup butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar to a cream. Add 3 well-beaten eggs, 2-3 cup milk, 2 1/2 cups flour and 2 teaspoons baking powder. Flavor and bake in 3 layers.

Filling

1 cup sugar, 4 tablespoons water. Boil until it threads from the spoon. Have ready the beaten white of 1 egg into which beat the boiled sugar until thick and smooth. Add quickly 1/2 cup chopped nuts and 1/2 cup chopped and seeded raisins. Spread between layers.

Harlequin Cake

Three-fourths cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup milk, 3 cups flour, 3 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Cream butter and sugar; add yolks well beaten; when very light, add milk, flour and baking powder, lastly whites which have been beaten stiff. Divide into 4 parts. Have 2 parts white; to another part add 1 square chocolate and to the other add fruit coloring. Spread with boiled icing.

Cocoanut Cake

One cup sugar, 1/2 cup milk, 1 1/2 cups flour, 3 well-beaten eggs and 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder. Bake in layers. Filling: Get a fresh cocoanut and grate, saving the milk from same and using it in cake instead of other milk, 1 1/2 cups sugar and 1/2 cup water boiled together till stringy; then take from fire and add to the well-beaten whites of 2 eggs. Beat until ready to spread. Add plenty of cocoanut. Spread between layers and on top of cake.

Strawberry Layer Cake

Two eggs, beat whites separately until stiff; then add beaten yolks, 1 cup sugar, 1 thin slice (about 1-3 cup) butter. Beat all together and add 1/2 cup sweet milk. Sift into this 1 1/2 cups unsifted flour, containing 2 level teaspoons baking powder. Flavor. This makes 3 layers.

Filling

Crush 1 cup ripe strawberries with spoon, add 1 cup sugar, and white of 1 egg not beaten. Put all into a can and beat with an egg beater until thick enough to spread. By using can spattering is prevented.

Sour Cream Almond Cake

Two cups sugar, 2-3 cup butter, 4 eggs, 1/2 cup sweet milk, 3 cups flour into which sift 21/2 teaspoons baking powder; add 1/2 teaspoon extract of almond. Bake in layers.

Filling

Mix 1 cup thick sour cream with 1 pound chopped and blanched almonds and sugar to taste. Beat yolks of 2 eggs very light and add to cream with 2 tablespoons cornstarch (cooked). Beat whites of eggs and sweeten to taste. Mix all thoroughly, flavor with vanilla and spread between layers after cake is cold.