Children's Birthday Cake

Ingredients

• Cream y2 cup butter
• with one cup sugar
• Add y% cup of sweet milk
• alternately with 2 cups flour
• which have been sifted with 2 teaspoons baking powder
• and pinch of salt
• Add y2 teaspoon lemon flavoring
• Beat 3 egg whites to a froth

Method

1. 1

   Gently stir in egg whites.

2. 2

   Color one half of this batter a light pink.

3. 3

   Make a second batter the same way using the egg yolks beaten to a cream instead of the whites.

4. 4

   Color one half with melted chocolate and flavor with vanilla.

5. 5

   This is put into four cake tins.

6. 6

   Each tin has a ring of the four colors and must be put in as follows: 1 — White, Pink, Yellow, Brown.

7. 7

   2— Pink, White, Brown, Yellow.

8. 8

   3— Yellow, Brown, White, Pink.

9. 9

   4 — Brown, Yellow, Pink, White.

10. 10

    Cook at 375 degrees.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Gertrude Bobbitt Circle cook book (1948) by Central Methodist Church (Spencer, N.C.). Gertrude Bobbitt Circle, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHILDKEN'S BIRTHDAY CAKE Cream y2 cup butter with one cup sugar. Add y% cup of sweet milk alternately with 2 cups flour which have been sifted with 2 teaspoons baking powder and pinch of salt. Add y2 teaspoon lemon flavoring. Beat 3 egg whites to a froth

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