Imperial Cake

¾ cup butter.

1½ cups sugar.

3 egg yolks.

2½ cups flour.

3 teaspoons baking powder.

¼ cup milk.

2 cups seeded raisins 1½ cups currants.

1 cup citron.

½ cup candied orange peel ¼ cup brandy.

3 egg whites.

½ teaspoon salt.

Mix as Butter Cake, adding fruit last. Bake in buttered and papered pans in a moderate oven one hour.

Fig Cake

Use rule for Orange Cake. Bake in layers. Fill with Fig Filling, and sprinkle with confectioner's sugar.

Marshmallow Cake

Bake Silver Cake in layers. Fill and frost with Marsh-mallow Frosting.

Chocolate Marshmallow Cake

Add four squares melted chocolate to Silver Cake. Bake in layers, and fill and cover with Marshmallow Frosting.

Mocha Cake

Use rule for Hot Water Sponge Cake. Bake in layers. Cool; cut in rounds; arrange in three layers, with confectioner's frosting between; spread sides and top with Mocha Frosting; sprinkle sides with cocoanut, and garnish top with Mocha Frosting put through pastry bag.

If a coffee cake is preferred, substitute hot coffee for hot water in Hot Water Sponge Cake.

Angel Cake

1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup egg whites 1 cup flour.

¼ teaspoon salt.

1 teaspoon cream of tartar.

1 teaspoon vanilla.

Beat egg whites on platter with wire beater. When foamy, add cream of tartar; when stiff, add sugar gradually. Sift flour four times with salt. Cut and fold into egg mixture. Add vanilla, bake one hour in moderate oven in angel cake pan. Invert pan on cake cooler and allow it to drop out itself. If too brown, wrap in wet cheese cloth for ten minutes; then brown may be easily removed.

Sunshine 'Cake

1 cup sugar 5 egg yolks ¼ teaspoon salt ¾ cup flour.

½ teaspoon cream of tartar 6 egg whites.

1½ tablespoons orange juice 1 teaspoon lemon juice.

Beat yolks until lemon-colored and thick; add sugar and flavoring and continue beating. Mix and sift flour and cream of tartar four times. Cut and fold in stiffly beaten whites, alternately with flour. Bake in an angel cake pan one hour in a moderate oven.

Almond Cake

Use rule for Silver Cake. Bake in shallow pan; sprinkle with powdered sugar and chopped almonds. Bake twenty to thirty minutes in moderate oven.

Bride's Cake

Use rule for Silver Cake and bake in angel cake pan forty to sixty minutes.

Lemon Queens

½ cup butter 1 cup sugar.

1 cup flour.

2 teaspoons baking powder.

4 egg yolks grated rind 1 lemon.

2 tablespoons lemon juice.

4 egg whites.

Make as Butter Cake and bake in buttered lemon queen pans twenty to thirty minutes.

Cream Puffs

1 cup boiling water ½ cup butter 1¾ cups flour.

5 eggs.

1 tablespoon sugar.

¼ teaspoon salt.

Boil sugar, water and butter one minute; add flour all at once. Beat until mixture leaves side of the pan in a mass, add eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly. When all eggs are used, beat five minutes; drop from tip of tablespoon on to a buttered sheet and bake one half hour in quick oven. Fill with Cream Filling, Strawberry Filling, Chocolate Filling, or Whipped Cream.