Arcadia Cakes Recipe

Ingredients for Arcadia Cakes Recipe

• Scald and dry a small mixing bowl, put in
• 3 tablespoons butter and rub until creamy. Add slowly
• 1/3 cup sugar; when smooth and light add
• 1 egg yolk and
• 3 tablespoons milk. Sift in
• 5/8 cup pastry flour and
• ¾ teaspoon baking powder. Mix well, then add
• 1 egg white beaten stiff. Bake in greased and floured muffin tins not more than 2 inches in diameter. The finished cakes should be not more than three-fourths of an inch thick. Remove soft centers from cakes, taking them out from the top; fill cakes with
• Cocoa Butter Cream, put cakes together in pairs with the filling inside, cover with
• White Butter Cream and cover entire cake with thin

Instructions

1. Scald and dry a small mixing bowl.
2. Add 3 tablespoons butter and rub until creamy.
3. Add 1/3 cup sugar slowly.
4. When smooth and light, add 1 egg yolk and 3 tablespoons milk.
5. Sift in 5/8 cup pastry flour and ¾ teaspoon baking powder.
6. Mix well, then add 1 egg white beaten stiff.
7. Bake in greased and floured muffin tins not more than 2 inches in diameter. The finished cakes should be not more than three-fourths of an inch thick.
8. Remove soft centers from cakes, taking them out from the top.
9. Fill cakes with Cocoa Butter Cream.
10. Put cakes together in pairs with the filling inside.
11. Cover with White Butter Cream and cover entire cake with thin Coffee Frosting.
12. Decorate with reserved cream forced through a very small pastry tube of paper or tin.
13. The butter cream may be omitted and cakes be merely frosted on top if preferred.

Butter Cream, Cocoa and White

1. Work 1/3 cup washed or fresh sweet butter until very light and creamy.
2. Add # 1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar and1/2 teaspoon vanilla very gradually.
3. Beat until very light.
4. Reserve 2 tablespoons mixture for decoration.
5. Divide remainder in two portions.
6. To one portion, add 1 tablespoon dry cocoa.
7. Whip 4 tablespoons cream and add two-thirds of it to the white butter cream.
8. Fold remainder into that which contains the cocoa.
9. Use as filling for cakes.

Coffee Frosting

1. Mix 1/2 tablespoon corn syrup with 2 tablespoons strong hot coffee.
2. Add # 1 1/4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar a tablespoon at a time, beating constantly and occasionally setting over hot water to keep it lukewarm.