Recipes For Making Sponge Or Savoy Cakes. Part 2

Sunshine Cake Recipe

The whites of seven eggs. 1 cup of sugar (fine granulated). The yolks of five eggs. 1 teaspoonful of orange extract. 1/3 a teaspoonful of cream-of-tartar. 2/3 cup of flour.

Beat the yolks of the eggs until light colored and thick; beat the whites until foamy, add the cream-of-tartar and beat until dry; beat the sugar into the whites, then beat in the yolks; add the extract and fold in the flour. Bake in an unbuttered tube pan from thirty-five to fifty minutes.

Angel Cake Recipe

1 cup of whites of eggs (about 10 eggs). 1 cup of flour. 1/2 teaspoonful of cream-of-tartar. 1 cup of sugar. 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract.

Beat the whites of the eggs until foamy; add the cream-of-tartar and beat until dry; beat in the sugar gradually, using a cake spoon, add the extract, then fold in the flour; bake in a tube pan, unbuttered, with a stronger heat than for yellow sponge cake. Thirty to fifty minutes will be needed, according to the depth of the pan.

Cocoanut Cake Recipe. (Mrs. Matthews, Ohio)

Whites of eight eggs. 1 1/2 cups of flour. 1 1/4 cups of sugar. 1 teaspoonful of cream-of-tartar. 1/2 teaspoonful of salt.

Mix as an angel cake. Bake in layers. Make a frosting with the whites of five eggs, and two level tablespoonfuls of sugar for each egg. Put fresh grated cocoanut between the layers and over the outside. For frosting, beat the whites dry, then beat in sugar.

Chocolate Sponge Cake Recipe

Add to the beaten eggs and sugar of a sponge-cake mixture made with yolks of eggs two tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, melted over hot water, and finish as any sponge cake. Use half a teaspoonful of cream-of-tartar with the whites of the eggs and flavor with vanilla.

Mocha Cake Recipe

Bake a sponge-cake mixture in two round layer cake pans. Prepare a mocha cream and spread smoothly between the layers and upon the outside of the cake. Score the cake in pieces for serving. Pipe with the remainder of the cream (see Butter Icing, Chapter 17).

Mocha Cakes Recipe

Bake a sponge cake in a sheet. When baked it should be nearly an inch in thickness. Cut the cake in small rounds, spread the sides lightly with mocha cream, then roll in chopped nuts. Cocoa-nut, pecan nuts or walnuts may be used. With pastry bag and star tube pipe mocha cream round and round over the top of the cake. Finish with a maraschino cherry in the centre.

Lady-Fingers Recipe (Naples Biscuit)

6 eggs. 1 cup of flour. 1 1/4 cups of powdered sugar. A grating of lemon or orange rind. The juice of half a lemon.

Mix according to formula. Press the mixture through a tube on to a baking sheet, covered with paper, in portions an inch wide and five inches long. Dust with powdered sugar, and bake from ten to fifteen minutes, without browning. Remove from the paper, brush over the flat surface of one biscuit with white of egg, and press the underside of a second biscuit upon the first.