Hemispheres

Ingredients

• 1/2 cupful of butter
• 1 cupful of powdered sugar
• 1 cupful of pastry flour
• 1 teaspoonful of vanilla
• Yolks of two eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cream together the butter and sugar, add the yolks and flavoring, then the flour.

2. 2

   Make into balls one inch in diameter, roll in powdered sugar, and place on a floured tin.

3. 3

   Bake in a moderate oven for 10-15 minutes.

4. 4

   Cover flat sides with icing of different colors and decorate with icing pressed through a tube.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Luncheons (1902) by Mary Ronald, page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HEMISPHERES. LOAF CAKES — SMALL CAKES — FANCY CAKES 187 FANCY CAKES No. 1. Cherry-cakes. Cut a layer of any kind of cake into pieces three inches long and two and a quarter wide. Ice them, lay on candied cherries cut in halves, small strips of angelica imitating stems, and angelica cut in diamond-shaped pieces imitating leaves. The cakes in illustration are made of sponge-cake ; the two on the outside are covered with icing No. 4, the other two with maple icing No. 5. No. 2. Domino cakes. Cut a laj-er of cake into two pieces. Cover one with chocolate icing and the other with white icing. While the icing is still soft cut the cake, using a sharp knife, into pieces three inches long and one and a half inches wide. Put a little decorating icing (No. 16) into a pastry- bag with plain tube of small opening, and press it through on to the cakes in dots and lines to imitate dominoes. Use white icing for the chocolate pieces, and the same icing mixed with cocoa powder for the white pieces. No. 3. Marble cakes. Drop any cake mixture from a spoon on to a floured baking-sheet, using about a dessert- spoonful of mixture for each cake, and leaving enough space for the cakes to spread. Place on the flat sides icings of three colors and let them run together irregularly to give a marble-like appearance. No. 4. Hemispheres. Make a cake mixture, using, |- cupful of butter, i cupful of powdered sugar, I cupful of pastry flour, I teaspoonful of vanilla, Yolks of two eggs

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