Name: Violet Cakes
Ingredients: white cake batter; white boiled icing; violet flavoring; crystallized violets; dark green citron stems; mint leaves; violet fondant; small violet candies

Violet Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Bake a white cake batter in small cups until done.
Let the cakes cool completely.
Dip the cooled cakes into white boiled icing flavored with violet.
While the icing is still moist, decorate with crystallized violets, dark green citron stems, and mint leaves.
At the base of each cake, place a row of violet fondant pressed through a star tube or use small violet candies.

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.