Apple Jelly Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 3 cups flour
• 1 A teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
• 1 cup milk
• 6 apples
• 6 ounces sugar
• 1 teaspoon butter

Method

1. 1

   Rub together butter and sugar to fine, light, white cream, add eggs 2 at a time, beating 10 minutes after each addition.

2. 2

   Sift flour and Royal Baking Powder together, add to butter, etc., with milk, and mix into rather thin batter.

3. 3

   Bake in jelly-cake tins carefully greased.

4. 4

   Meanwhile have apples peeled and sliced, put on fire with sugar; when tender remove, rub through fine sieve, and add butter.

5. 5

   When cold use to spread between layers.

6. 6

   Cover cake plentifully with sugar sifted over top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal baker and pastry cook (1913) by Royal Baking Powder Company, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Apple Jelly Cake. — 1 cup butter, 2 cups su¬ gar, 4 eggs, 3 cups flour, 1 A teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 cup milk, 6 apples, 6 ounces sugar, 1 teaspoon butter. Rub together but¬ ter and sugar to fine, light, white cream, add eggs 2 at a time, beating 10 minutes after each addition. Sift flour and Royal Baking Pow¬ der together, add to butter, etc., with milk, and mix into rather thin batter. Bake in jelly-cake tins carefully greased. Meanwhile have apples peeled and sliced, put on fire with sugar; when tender remove, rub through fine sieve, and add butter. When cold use to spread between layers. Cover cake plenti¬ fully with sugar sifted over top. Banana Cake. — H cup butter, 1 cup sugar, A cup milk, 2 scant cups flour, 1 A teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, whites 4 eggs, A tea¬ spoon vanilla. Mix flour and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add milk and flour alternately, then vanilla and beaten whites. Bake in 3 layer-tins in hot oven. To receipt for boiled icing (see Cake Fillings) add H cup mashed banana and use as filling. Dust top with powdered sugar. Chocolate Layer Cake. — 2 eggs, 2 cups powdered sugar, 1 cup milk, 2 cups flour, 2 scant teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, A tea¬ spoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Beat egg yolks till thick . Gradually add and beat in the sugar. Add vanilla and milk, whites whipped stiff, and flour. Bake in 3 layer-cake pans in hot oven. Put together with chocolate filling, No. 2 (see Cake Fillings). Chocolate Loaf Cake. — A cup butter, 1 A cups sugar, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, A teaspoon salt, Yi cup milk, 4 eggs, 4 ounces chocolate dissolved in 5 table¬ spoons boiling water, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolks, vanilla, and dis¬ solved chocolate. Alternate the milk and flour and beat hard, then add whipped whites, turn into buttered loaf-pan lined with 3 thicknesses of paper. Bake in moderate oven. Cinnamon Chocolate Cake. — A. cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, A cup milk, 1A cups flour, 1A teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, A teaspoon salt, 3 teaspoons powdered cinna¬ mon. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar. Add cinnamon and beaten yolks, then alternate milk and flour. Add whipped whites, beat hard, and bake in 3 layer-pans in quick oven. When cold put together with boiled icing containing melted chocolate. Coffee Cake. — 1 cup very strong coffee, 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar

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