Marshmallow Cake

Soak 2 tablespoonfuls of gelatin in water enough to cover. Add ½ cup of boiling water. When dissolved beat until stiff with 2 cups of powdered sugar. Flavor with vanilla. Wet a cake tin with cold water and spread the mixture smoothly in. Make this at night. In the morning make a cake as follows: ½ cupful of butter, 1½ cupfuls sugar, 2 cupfuls flour, ½ cupful milk, whites of 5 eggs, 2 level teaspoonfuls of baking powder, ½ teaspoonful of vanilla extract. Beat the butter to a cream, gradually beat into it the sugar and vanilla. Add the milk and the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Then the flour and baking powder sifted together. Bake this in two layers, in tins the size of the one containing the filling. Put them together while warm, the filling between the two cake layers. Frost. Very delicious. Use either square or round tins.

Second Marshmallow Filling

Boil 2 cupfuls of sugar with 1 cup of water until it threads. Just before taking it off the fire put in ½ pound of marshmallows cut in bits to melt easily. Pour this mixture into the beaten whites of 2 eggs, and beat until cold. Then spread. Frost the cake and decorate the top with marshmallows cut in half. Make the cake after above rule. Bake in three layers.

Devil's Food

2 cupfuls brown sugar creamed with 1 cupful butter.

1 cupful milk.

3 cupfuls flour.

3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted with the flour.

4 eggs beaten separately.

Flavor with vanilla. Grate or cut finely ½ pound Baker's chocolate, add ½ cup of milk, and boil until thick. Pour this into the cake batter, and mix thoroughly. This last may be added before the flour is stirred in, or after all the ingredients are mixed.

Brownstone Front Cake

Boil together until thin:

½ cupful Baker's chocolate.

½ cupful sweet milk.

1 cupful sugar.

Yolk of 1 egg. Let cool.

Second Part

1 cupful sugar creamed with ½, cupful butter.

½ cupful sweet milk.

2½ cupfuls flour sifted with:

2 teaspoonfuls baking powder.

3 eggs, beaten separately.

Mix, and then carefully stir both parts together. Bake in four layers and put together with chocolate frosting.

Ambrosia Cake

¾ cupful of butter.

2 cupfuls sugar.

4 eggs.

½ cupful milk.

3 cupfuls flour. Bake in 4 jelly cake tins. When cold put between the layers the following filling:

Filling

1 pint of whipped cream.

1 cocoanut, grated.

2 eggs.

1 cupful of sugar.

Grated rind of 1 and juice of 2 oranges. Make the filling as near as possible time to serve, since, it is liable to soak into the cake.

Spice Cake

1 cupful butter. 1 cupful sweet milk.

2 cupfuls brown sugar. 5 eggs.

3 teaspoonfuls baking powder.

1 teaspoonful each of cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, mace, and finely ground coffee. ½ teaspoonful cloves. 5 cupfuls flour.

This makes a large loaf, and will keep some time if wrapped in a cloth.