"RAINBOW" CAKE

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1678, 27 April 1904, Page 27

"RAINBOW" CAKE

For this cake of many colours one requires two mixtures. Mix the dry ingredients first. For the white cake work together four ounces of flour, two ounces of castor sugar, two ounoosi of butter, and a half a teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat up two eggs with a gill of milk, adding a pinch of salt. The darker cake.—Four ounces of flour, two ounces of butter, two -ounces of sugar, a table-spoon-ful of treacle, a little spice or any kind, two yolks of eggs, some milk and a small teaspoonful of baking powder. First, rub the butter into the flour, beat tire yolks of eggs with the treacle, and- mix all the ingredients together with a wooden spoon. Have ready a greased square tin, drop the mixtures in by alternate spoonfuls, and add thin slices of citron now and than between the two colours. Bake in a sharp steady oven till it is thoroughly baked through. The white mixture can be coloured with cochineal, and used in alternate layers with the light and dark mixture.