Cocoanut Layer Cake

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup sweet milk
• 2 cups sugar

Method

1. 1

   For white filling, cook 2 cups sugar and 1/2 cup sweet milk for 5 minutes, then add 1 teaspoon butter and 1 teaspoon flavoring.

2. 2

   Take from oven and beat till creamy.

3. 3

   Spread on cake quickly before it hardens.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book (1921), page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cocoanut Layer Cake. 3 eggs; 1 cup sugar; 2 tablespoons butter; 2 tea- spoons baking powder; 1 cup sweet milk; 2 cups sugar. WHITE FILLING: 2 cups sugar; % cup sweet milk. Cook 5 minutes, then add 1 teaspoon butter and 1 teaspoon flavoring. Take from oven and beat till creamy. Spread on cake quickly before it hardens. MRS. EMIL KOLMEIER. — 123 — Illinois Cake. 5 eggs; 2 cupfuls of sugar; 1 cupful of butter; 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder; 3 cupfuls of flour, and 1 cupful of sweet milk. Flavor with, vanilla. FILLING: 1 cupful of sugar and enough water to dissolve the sugar; put in a pan and let simmer on the stove until it candies. Then chop fine, 1 cupful of seedless raisins. Stir into the candied sugar, then add the beaten whites of 2 eggs; flavor with vanilla. MRS. AD. GOLD. Lady Baltimore Cake. 1 cup butter; 2 cups sugar; 1 cup milk; 3% cups flour; whites of 3 eggs; 1 teaspoon rose water; 3 tea- spoons baking powder. FILLING: 3 cups sugar; 1 cup boiling water; l1 cup chopped raisins; 1 cup nut meats; 5 figs, cut in thin slices, whites of 3 eggs. MRS. WM. KUENEMANN. Potato Cake. 1 cup butter ; 2 cups sugar ; 4 eggs ; 1 cooked potato ; !/o cup sweet milk; 1 cup chopped pecans; % cup chocolate; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; i/> teaspoon cloves; y2 teaspoon nutmeg; 2 cups flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder

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