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- Walter Baker & Co., Ltd
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- Cookbook from 1916
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- Vintage Recipes
Birthday Cake
2016-04-06 13:28:21
A chocolate cake recipe, entitled "Birthday Cake", adapted from 'Choice Recipes Compliments of Walter Baker & Co., Ltd.' booklet published in 1916.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
906g
Amount Per Serving
Calories 2578
Calories from Fat 723
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 82g
126%
Saturated Fat 48g
239%
Trans Fat 3g
Polyunsaturated Fat 6g
Monounsaturated Fat 23g
Cholesterol 554mg
185%
Sodium 1679mg
70%
Total Carbohydrates 421g
140%
Dietary Fiber 16g
65%
Sugars 214g
Protein 55g
Vitamin A
51%
Vitamin C
6%
Calcium
50%
Iron
50%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup Butter
- 1 cup Sugar
- Yolks 2 Eggs
- 1 cup Buttermilk
- 2 cups Flour
- 1/3 cup Baker's Breakfast Cocoa*
- 1 teaspoon Soda**
- 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
Instructions
- Cream the butter, and add sugar gradually, while beating constantly.
- Drop yolks of eggs into mixture and beat thoroughly;
- then add buttermilk, flour mixed with cocoa and soda, and vanilla.
- Turn into three buttered and floured layer cake pans
- Bake in a moderate oven*** twenty minutes.
- Put Marshmallow Frosting between layers and on top of cake.
Notes
- Since this recipe was written in 1916, if not earlier.. I had to adapt it a little..
- *Baker's Breakfast Cocoa I could not find... I'm guessing over time they dropped the 'Breakfast'
- **Soda is Baking Soda.. A hundred years ago, they only had one kind of Soda.
- *** Moderate Oven = 350F (Time may need adjusted)
Adapted from Choice Recipes
Adapted from Choice Recipes
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Marshmallow Frosting
2016-04-07 07:45:12
A Marshmallow Frosting recipe adapted from Choice Recipes compliments of Walter Baker Co,. Ltd published in 1916
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
642g
Amount Per Serving
Calories 1811
Calories from Fat 2
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 0g
0%
Saturated Fat 0g
0%
Trans Fat 0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0g
Monounsaturated Fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg
0%
Sodium 175mg
7%
Total Carbohydrates 459g
153%
Dietary Fiber 0g
0%
Sugars 441g
Protein 8g
Vitamin A
0%
Vitamin C
0%
Calcium
1%
Iron
2%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Ingredients
- 2 cups of Sugar
- 7 Tablespoons of Water
- 10 Marshmallows cut into small pieces
- 2 Egg Whites
Instructions
- Put sugar and water, into sauce pan and stir to prevent sugar from adhering to saucepan.
- Heat to boiling point, and let boil rapidly, without stirring, until syrup will thread when dropped from tip of the spoon.
- Remove from range and add marshmallows cut into small pieces.
- Beat whites of eggs until stiff, but not dry, and add hot syrup gradually, while beating consistently; then continue the beating until mixture is of right consistency to spread.
Adapted from Choice Recipes
Adapted from Choice Recipes
Dakeyne Farm https://dakeynefarm.com/
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The cake was amazing… turned out perfectly.. and was super yummy. I am not the best cake baker… they always seem to either fall, or are never thoroughly cooked.. but this recipe turned out like a gem!