Almond Cakes
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup milk
2 eggs
1-1/3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup Jordan almonds, blanched and cut in pieces
Mix ingredients in order given, and bake in individual cake pans.
Brownies
1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/3 cup Porto Rico molasses
1 egg, well beaten
7/8 cup bread flour
1 cup pecan meat, cut in pieces
Mix ingredients in order given. Bake in small shallow fancy cake tins, garnishing top of each cake with one-half pecan.
Chocolate Sponge
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup prepared powdered cocoa
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon clove
1/2 cup cold water
1 cup flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
Cream the butter; add cocoa, yolks of eggs well beaten, sugar mixed with cinnamon and clove, and water. Beat the whites of eggs, and add to first mixture alternately with flour mixed and sifted with baking powder. Bake in small tins from fifteen to twenty minutes.
Devil's Food Cake I
1/2 cup butter
2 cups sugar
Yolks 4 eggs
1 cup milk
2-1/3 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
Whites 4 eggs
2 squares chocolate
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Cream the butter, and add gradually one-half the sugar. Beat yolks of eggs until thick and lemon-colored, and add gradually remaining sugar. Combine mixtures, and add alternately milk and flour mixed and sifted with baking powder; then add whites of eggs beaten stiff, chocolate melted, and vanilla. Bake forty-five to fifty minutes in an angel cake pan. Cover with White Mountain Cream (see p. 528).
