Spice Layer Cake
Ingredients
- 2 cupfuls sugar creamed with 1 cupful of butter
- 1 cupful sweet milk
- 5 eggs beaten separately
- 4 cupfuls flour sifted with 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
Directions
Mix the yolks, well-beaten, with the sugar, and add the (stiffly whipped whites last of all. This would make a very nice loaf cake as it is, but for the layer cake divide the batter. Bake one-half in two layer tins, and to the other half add:
- 1/2 cupful molasses
- 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon
- 1 teaspoonful each nutmeg and allspice
- 1/2 teaspoonful each cloves and ginger
Bake in two layer cake tins and put together alternately light and dark, using any frosting or icing that may be preferred, icing the top as well.