How To Make Checkerboard Cake

Checkerboard Cake.

Showing Layers of Checkerboard Cake

Cream 1 cup sugar with butter the size of an egg. Break into this 2 eggs and beat together well with egg beater. Stir in 1 cup sour milk. Beat in 2 cups flour sifted with a level teasp soda and a pinch of salt. Turn 1/2 the batter into another bowl and add 2 tablesp cocoa wet with 2 tablesp hot water and 1 teasp vanilla, To the yellow part add a teasp of lemon extract. Use small cake tins, and with yellow batter, teasp at a time, make a ring a little more than an inch wide. Inside this ring lay a ring of dark batter, and fill in center with yellow. Make two of these layers, then one other with dark batter on outside ring and in center (this is to be the middle layer, when cake is put together). Ice with 1/2 lb confectioner's sugar wet with sweet cream and vanilla extract. Bake cake layers in a moderate oven.