Chapter 2
Section 2 of 10 Cakes Husbands Like Best from Spry's Recipe Roundup. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Read by George Banfield July 2024
Ten Cakes Husbands Like Best by Lever Brothers Company All Cakes Supreme Fudge Frosted Layer Cake Oven temperature 375 degrees Fahrenheit, moderately hot. Baking time 60 to 70 minutes. Yield 1 large tube cake.
Sift 2 3 quarter cups sifted cake flour, 1 3 quarter cups sugar, 2 teaspoons double acting baking powder, 1 and a half teaspoons salt into mixing bowl. Add 1 cup homogenized spry, 3 quarters cup milk, 2 teaspoons vanilla, 1 unbeaten egg. Beat 200 strokes, 2 minutes by hand or on a mixer at low speed. Scrape bowl and spoon or beater.
Add 2 unbeaten eggs, 1 unbeaten egg yolk. Beat 200 strokes, same as above. Put 1 third of batter in a smaller mixing bowl. Add 3 quarters teaspoon cinnamon, 1 sixteenth teaspoon cloves, 3 eighth teaspoon allspice, 3 eighth teaspoon nutmeg, 3 quarters tablespoon cocoa to 1 third of batter.
Spoon both batters alternately by tablespoonfuls into spry coated 8 and a half inch tube pan. Run spatula through batters several times to marble. Bake until cake test's done. Cool and remove from pans. Spread lemon cream icing on sides and top.
Fudge frosted layer cake. Oven temperature 375 degrees Fahrenheit, moderately hot. Baking time 25 to 35 minutes. Yield 2 square or round 8 inch layers. Sift 2 cups sifted cake flour, 1 and a third cups sugar, 2 and a half teaspoons double acting
baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt into mixing bowl. Add half cup homogenized spry. Combine 1 cup less 2 tablespoons milk, 1 and a half teaspoons vanilla. Add 2 thirds of combined milk and vanilla. Beat 200 strokes, 2 minutes by hand or on a mixer at low speed.
Scrape bowl and spoon or beater. Add remaining milk and vanilla, 2 unbeaten eggs. Beat 200 strokes, same as above. Pour into 2 square 8 inch by 8 inch by 2 inch spry coated pans or 2 round 8 inch pans, 1 and a quarter inches deep.
Bake until cake test's done. Cool and remove from pans. Spread chocolate fudge frosting between layers and on top and sides. Serve with walnut halves. End of section 2.
