Nice Little Cakes

New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 22

Nice Little Cakes

N practically every home there will be a welcome for a batch of recipes for nice little cakes, especially simply-made ones. It is often very convenient to have these handy, instead of cutting slices of big cakes. It’s economical, too-no crumbs to waste! So

here are some practical "Daisy Chain" ones, and if you have a new pet recipe just send it in to help the collection. Afghans Ordinary Recipe: 3 oz. sugar, 6 oz. flour, pinch salt, 6 oz. butter, 1 tablespoon cocoa, 2 oz. cornflakes. Cream butter and sugar, add dry ingredients. Roll in balls, cook on cold oven tray, moderate oven. Variations: Substitute 2 oz. cornflour for cornflakes or 1 oz. cornflour and 1 oz. cornflakes, and add about 2 tablespoons boiling water when creaming butter and sugar. When cold ice with chocolate icing, and put a piece of walnut on top. Fairy Cakes _ Cream together 3 oz. butter, 3. oz. castor sugar. Add yolks 2 eggs. Sift together 4 oz. flour, 2 oz. cornflour. Add flour and cornflour to butter and sugar, then add stiffly-beaten egg whites. Finally add 1 teaspoon baking powder, Bake in a good oven 10 to 12 minutes.

Butterfly Cakes Two tablespoons cornflour, % cup flour, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 wellbeaten egg, 1 tablespoon or more milk, flavour with vanilla. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, then add flour and baking powder, lastly egg and milk. Place 1 teaspoon of mixture in cake cups. Bake in hot oven 10 minutes. Take top off cakes and fill with following: 1 teaspoon whipped cream flavoured with vanilla, 1 teaspoon raspberry jelly on top of cream. Cut cake top into two long wings and place on each side of cake. Chocolate Kisses Without Cooking Two ounces plain chocolate, 2 oz. crisp biscuits, 2 oz. ground almonds, 2 oz. castor sugar, white of egg. Grate chocolate finely, add sugar and ‘ground almonds. Crush biscuits with rolling pin and rub through sieve. Mix all together with the white of egg to stiff paste. Roll out on pastry board dusted with castor suge . Cut into small rounds with pastry

cutter and leave to dry. Fasten together with jam or whipped cream. Thess are delicious. Real Queen Cakes Nine ounces butter, 6 oz. castor sugar, 9 oz. flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 6 oz. sultanas or currants, 3 eggs, 1 tablespoon milk in eggs. Cream butter and sugar, add eggs well beaten, then flour and baking powder, Add fruit, bake in smart oven in tins or paper cases. Bumble Bees One cup chopped dates, 12 cup walnuts, ¥2 cup preserved ginger, 42 cup figs, 1 cup sultanas or raisins, 1 cup coconut, 1 small tin condensed milk. Mix all together and squeeze into oval shapes, put on a greased tray and bake in a moderate oven till golden brown. Cornflake Meringues One white of egg, 1 cup icing sugar, 1 cup walnuts, 1 cup cornflakes, Beat the white of the egg, add icing sugar, walnuts and cornflakes. Stir well and bake on cold greased slide about 10 minutes or until a pale cream. Cream Lilies Two eggs, 4% cup sugar, 42 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder. Beat eggs 10 minutes, then add sugar, beat another 10 minutes, add sifted flour and baking powder. Put heaped dessertspoons on cold tray and bake about 5 minutes. When cooked, roll, turning over with fold downwards till cold. Put on cake cooler or tray, sprinkled with icing sugar. Roll while hot, taking out of oven

one at a time. Fill with cream and jelly when cold as required. If a length of yellow jelly is inserted, it will look like an arum lily. Coconut Cheese Cakes Rub 414 oz. butter into 8 oz. flour. Add 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon baking .powder, 2 egg yolks and enough water to make into stiff paste. Roll out fairly thin and cut into rounds, and place in little patty tins. Then place a little of following mixture in: Beat whites of 2 eggs till stiff, add 6 oz. sugar and 3 tablespoons coconut, and mix. Bake in moderate oven about 20 minutes or till golden brown. Pearl Cakes Six ounces butter, %4 cup sugar, 1 egg, 14% cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 cup dates, 4 cup walnuts. Cream butter and sugar, add egg, then all dry ingredients and fruit, keep mixing till the butter has-thoroughly mixed all the flour and everything into very stiff consistency, on no account add any liquid. Rub about 1 teaspoon in cornflakes into ball shape and bake in moderate oven about 1% hour. The cakes should be put in air-tight tins, and will keep for quite a time. Dusky Dan One cup flour, 1 small cup sugar, 1 cup coconut or dates, or weetbix, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 tablespoon cocoa, 14 lb, butter. Melt the butter and pour into dry ingredients. Vanilla or peppermint essence may be added. A crumbly

mixture but press down into tin to biscuit thickness and bake in moderate | oven. Ice with chocolate icing | warm, and cut. Ragged Robins (Winnipeg) Whites of,3 eggs beaten stiffly, 2 cup sugar, 1 cup chopped walnuts, 1 cup coconut, 1 cup cornflakes, 1 cup chopped dates, 1 teaspoon vanilla (if liked), Beat whites stiffly, add sugar, fold in all other | ingredients, drop on buttered slide, cook | slowly till light brown. Welsh Cheese Cakes Line patty tins with short crust pastry. Put into each a small quantity of | jam. Put on top of jam 1 teaspoon of following mixture: 1 egg, its weight in

butter, sugar and flour, pinch baking powder, grated rind of % lemon, Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add flour and egg, then lemon rind, lastly baking powder. Bake at once in quick oven until nicely brown. A pinch baking powcer means about 1% teaspoon (small).

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