Chapter 3
Section 3 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 Nathan Schatzer. Ten Cakes Husbands Like Best. By Lever Brothers Company. Section 3. Happy Birthday Coconut Cake. Twin Applesauce Loaves. Happy Birthday Coconut Cake. Oven temperature 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Moderately hot. Baking time 25 to 30 minutes. Yield. Two 9 inch round layers. Sift. Two and one fourth cup sifted cake flour. One and a half cup sugar. Two and a half teaspoons double acting baking powder. One teaspoon salt into mixing bowl.
Add three fourth cup homogenized spry. One half cup milk. One teaspoon orange extract. One half teaspoon almond extract. One unbeaten egg. Beat 200 strokes. Two minutes by hand or on mixer at low speed. Scrape bowl and spoon or beater. Add one fourth cup milk. Two unbeaten eggs. Beat 200 strokes. Pour into two round 9 inch spry coated layer pans. One and a half inches deep. Bake until cake test done. Cool and remove from pans. Spread best seven minute frosting between layers. Sprinkle with one fourth cup coconut and spread remaining frosting on sides and top of cake. Pat one cup coconut onto sides of cake. Write happy birthday across top of cake with pink frosting. Place pink candles in holders around rim of cake.
Twin applesauce loaves. Oven temperature 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Moderate. Baking time 1 hour and 25 to 35 minutes. Yield. Two small loaf cakes or one large tube cake. Sift two cups sifted cake flour. One and a half cup sugar. One and a half teaspoon soda. One and a half teaspoon salt. Two tablespoons cocoa. One half teaspoon cinnamon. One half teaspoon cloves. One half teaspoon nutmeg. One half teaspoon allspice into mixing bowl. Add one half cup homogenized spry. One and a half cups unsweetened applesauce. Beat 200 strokes. Two minutes by hand or on mixer at low speed. Scrape bowl and spoon or beater. Add two unbeaten eggs. Beat 200 strokes. Stir in three fourth cup cut up dates. Three fourth cup chopped raisins. One third cup diced citron. Three fourth cup chopped nuts. Pour into two small spry coated loaf pans. Four inches by six and a half inches by two and three fourth inches or into eight and a half inches tube pan.
On top of one loaf sprinkle mixture of two tablespoons chopped nuts and one tablespoon brown sugar. Bake until cake test done. Cool and remove from pans. Spread creamy vanilla frosting on sides and top of plain loaf. End of section three.
