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White Mountain Layer Cakes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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White Mountain Layer Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Blanch the almonds.

  2. Grate the coconut.

  3. Chop one-third of the almonds finely with all of the mixed fruit.

  4. Mix this with a small portion of the grated coconut.

  5. Ice both sides of each cake.

  6. Spread the fruit and almond mixture on each layer.

  7. Sprinkle with grated coconut.

  8. On the top layer, spread more fruit and decorate with whole almonds, sprinkling generously with coconut.

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.

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