Name: Ribbon Cake
Ingredients: double quantity of white cake batter; small amount of food coloring (for pink); frosting

Ribbon Cake

Ingredients

double quantity of white cake batter
small amount of food coloring (for pink)
frosting

Directions

Prepare a double batch of white cake batter.
Divide the batter in half; color one half with a small amount of food coloring to make it pink.
Bake the white, dark, and pink batters in jelly-cake tins.
Layer the cakes starting with white, then dark, and finally pink on top.
Spread frosting between each layer and frost the top when cool.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.