Cake Icings

Uncooked Icing

To 1 1/4 cup confectioner's sugar, add 1/2 cup of unsalted (preferred) butter, beat to a cream, then add 2 tablespoons cocoa, 2 tablespoons strong coffee and one tablespoon vanilla.

Cold White Icing

White of 1 egg, 1 tablespoon cold water, pulverized sugar to thicken.

To Soften Cake Frosting

If the icing should harden before putting it on the cake add a teaspoon of cream and stir quickly for a few seconds. This will soften the icing long enough to enable it to be put on the cake smoothly.

Icing

Two-thirds cup sugar, 2 tablespoons water; let boil and when done pour over the beaten whites of two eggs.

Cake Fillings

Caramel Filling

One cup sweet cream, l 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 teaspoon butter; boil 40 minutes, put between layers and on top.

Cream Filling For Cake

Beat the yolks of 3 eggs with 1/2 cup of sugar, add a small piece of butter and 1 teaspoon of corn starch, dissolved in 3/4 cup milk. When cooked add 1 cup chopped raisins, 1 cup chopped nuts and 1 teaspoon vanilla. This should be co6ked in a double boiler and is a delicious filling for any layer cake.

Raisin Filling For Cake

Two small cups sugar, 1/2 cup water; boil till it begins to be brittle; when done, stir in beaten whites of two eggs and then 1/2 cup seeeded and chopped raisins.

Filling For Devil Food Cake

One and one-half cups C sugar, 1 cup granulated sugar, 1/2 cup cream, 1/2 cup chocolate, 1 tablespoon butter; cook until it forms a soft ball in cold water, then beat until it begins to harden, flavor with vanilla, add 1/2 cup chopped English walnuts and 1/2 cup floured raisins; spread on cake quickly.

Filling. Walnut Filling For Cake

One cup sugar, 1/2 cup sour cream, 1/2 cup chopped nuts, lump of butter; boil until it is thick enough to spread.

Nut Cakes

Cocoanut Cake

Two cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter creamed together, add the juice and rind of 1 lemon, then the yolks of 5 eggs beaten light, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 1/2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 2 ounces of cocoanut and whites of eggs added last.

Cocoanut Cake

One pound granulated sugar, 1 pound butter, 4 eggs, 1 teacup milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar and 1 pound flour. Cream the butter and sugar and add the milk and other ingredients. Beat all well together until creamy, then stir in one finely grated cocoa-nut. Bake in moderate oven.

Nut Cake

One cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 2 1/2 cups flour, 2 heaping teaspoons of baking powder, whites of 4 eggs, 2 cups of English walnuts.

Nut Cake

One cup of sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1/2 cup sweet milk, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1 cup nut meats, teaspoon vanilla; sift flour and baking powder together, cream the butter, beat in the sugar gradually, then the yolks of the eggs and flavoring; add milk and flour alternately, and lastly, the stiff-beaten whites of eggs; mix in carefully the nut meats, chopped coarsely; bake in shallow pans; ice and put unbroken halves of the nut meats on top.

Icing

Boil sugar and water till it threads, beat white of egg fairly Stiff, turn boiling sugar into it, and stir rapidly about 30 seconds; then put in beater and beat until light and creamy; when cool, spread between layers.

Icing

1 cup granulated sugar, 5 tablespoons water, white of 1 egg.

Loaf Hickory Nut Cake

Take l 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 2 cups flour, whites of 4 eggs, 3/4 cup sweet milk, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup chopped hickory nut meats. Bake in loaf, in slow oven.

Nut Cake

One cup butter, 2 cups sugar, beaten to a cream, 1 cup milk, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, lastly, add the whites of 5 eggs, beaten stiff. This makes 3 large layers.

Filling

1 cup of nuts, 1 cup of sugar, § cup of sweet cream, a little corn starch if needed to help thicken, flavor to taste, boil till quite thick.

Walnut Cake

Four eggs (the whites), 2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup of miik, 3 1/2 cups flour, 1 cup walnut meats, chopped fine keep seeded raisins (can be left out), 4 level tea-spoons baking powder, sifted with flour.

Chocolate Cakes

Chocolate Loaf

One large cup of sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1/2 cup of sour milk, 1 teaspoon of soda, dissolved in a little hot water 1/3 bf a cake of chocolate, melted, and 2 cups of flour. Add vanilla to taste.

Chocolate Cake

Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 5 eggs, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder; rub the butter and sugar to a cream, beat the whites and yolks separately, divide the dough in 2 parts, put the whites in 1 part and the. yolks in the other; flavor the white with lemon and the yellow with nutmeg, bake two layers of each.

Filling

3 tablespoons of grated chocolate, 1/2 cup of sugar, as much boiling water, 4 teaspoons corn starch, butter the size of a hickory nut, cook until it thickens, when cool, flavor with vanilla. Put the cake together in alternate layers, white and yellow.

Chocolate Layer Cake

Prepare and allow to cool 1/2 cup grated chocolate. 1/2 cup hot milk or water, stir until smooth, l 1/2 cup granulated sugar, 1/2 cup butter (scant), 2 cups flour, with 1 teaspoon baking powder added, 1 cup sweet milk, 3 eggs, beaten separately, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in hot water, 1/2 nutmeg, grated, 1 teaspoon vanilla, bake in 2 layers; cream the butter and sugar, add yolks of eggs, well beaten, then milk, flour and soda, nutmeg, vanilla, chocolate, and lastly, whites of eggs. When cold, add the middle layer made of the following: Whites of 2 eggs, beaten stiff, 2 cups granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon vinegar, a little water, cook until it threads, then pour hot liquid into whites of eggs, beat until you can mold into shape, add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, place between chocolate layers.

Dark Chocolate Cake

One cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup sweet milk, 2 eggs, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon of soda.

Cream Part

1 cup grated chocolate, 2/3 cup sugar, 1/2 cup sweet milk, yolk 1 egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla, cook until it thickens and stir while cooking. When cool, beat into the other part of the cake.

Icing

1 1/2 cup pulverized sugar, 5 tablespoons greated chocolate, boiling hot water to make cream.

Chocolate Cream Cake

Cake Part

2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup of sour milk, 1/2 cup of butter, 1 teaspoon of soda, 2 cups of flour; beat butter and sugar to a cream, then add sour milk with soda thoroughly dissolved, then the flavor and last the eggs.

Cream Part

Yolk of 1 egg, 1/2 cup of sweet milk, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, scant cup of grated chocolate, sugar to taste; cook until of the consistency of cream. When cream is cold stir into the cake, beating thoroughly. Bake in layers and put together with cooked frosting.

Chocolate Cake

Two cups of sugar, 1 cup of butter, yolks of 5 eggs, and the whites of 2, 1 cup of sweet milk, 3 1/2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon of soda, 1 teaspoon cream tartar.

Filling

Whites of 3 eggs, 1/2 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons grated chocolate, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Put cooked frosting on top.

Chocolate Cake

Take 1/2 cup of butter, 1 cup of sugar, 1 1/4 cup flour, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1/2 teaspoon soda, 2 eggs, 2 squares of chocolate, 1 teaspoon of vanilla.

Chocolate Icing

One and one-half cup pulverized sugar, five tablespoons grated chocolate; hot water to spread.

Chocolate Filling

One ounce Baker's chocolate, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup milk; boil until thick, remove from fire and heat until cool enough to use.

Chocolate Frosting

One cup granulated sugar, 1 white of egg, 1/3 cup boiling water, beat egg stiff, add 1 scant level teaspoon cream of tartar, turn hot syrup into egg, beat until it thickens, add melted chocolate.