Yellow Layer Cake

One-half cup of butter, two cups of granulated sugar, three eggs three cups of sifted pastry flour, three level teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one cup of water, one teaspoonful of vanilla and about one-third teaspoonful of grated nutmeg. Mix the same as gold cake. Bake in a moderate oven about twenty minutes, or until when touched lightly with tip of finger it will leave no impression. This may be baked in three or four layers, according to convenience and put together with any kind of icing desired.

Chocolate Layer Cake

Add to yellow layer cake just before putting into the tins, two squares of plain chocolate which have been melted over steam. Put layers together with white or chocolate frosting.

Spiced Layer Cake

Three-quarters cup of butter, one pound of sugar, one cup of water, four eggs, three cups of flour, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of cloves, one-half nutmeg, three even teaspoonfuls of baking powder.

Cream the butter, add the sugar by degrees, then add the yolks of the eggs and beat well, now add the water and flour alternately a little at the time, then the spices and baking powder and last the well-beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in three deep jelly cake tins and spread between the layers and on top a soft icing.