"Caprice" Cake
Dear Aunt Daisy, I should be very grateful for a recipe for "Caprice" Cake.-"Siberia" (Taihape) | Yes, here is the recipe. The cake looks very pretty when cut in slices with its alternate squares of colour like a draught- | board. I have also heard it called | Battenburg cake. Two cups of flour, 2) teaspoons of baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon | of salt; 34 cup of sugar; 4 tablespoons | of butter; 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten; ly cup of milk, and 2 teaspoon of vanilla. ‘Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually, and beat until light and fluffy. Add the flour, baking powder and salt, sifted together, alternately with the milk, a little at a time. Beat thoroughly after each addition. Add the vanilla essence, and lastly, fold in the stiffly-beaten egg whites. Divide the batter thus made, and colour one half pink. Bake in two square sandwich tins for 20 minutes in a moderate oven. Cool thoroughly, then cut each layer into six even strips. Join the layers together, chequerboard fashion, with strawberry filling, cover the. outside of the cake with coco-nut paste, and leave in a cool place for 24 hours before cutting into slices. Strawberry Filling:.One cup of sifted icing sugar; 2 tablespoons of strawberry jam and one teaspoon of melted butter. Beat the jam into. the icing sugar, add the butter and sufficient hot water to make a smooth spreading paste. Coco-nut Paste: One and. a-half cups of sifted icing sugar; 4% cup of desiccated coco-nut; 1 tablespoon of butter; 1% teaspoon of salt; 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and 1% teaspoon of almond essence. Cream the butter, and add the sugar, salt and lemon juice. Add _ sufficient hot water to make a smooth paste. Then add the almond essence and sufficient green colouring to make it an attractive shade. Now add the coco-nut and beat well. The paste should be as thick as possible. Spread it evenly over the top and the sides of the cake. When cut, the cake is really pretty, with the green coco-nut paste all round, and the pink and white squares in each slice. Coco-nut Paste is a change from almond,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 46, 10 May 1940, Page 45
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360"Caprice" Cake New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 46, 10 May 1940, Page 45
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