Name: Washington S Birthday Cakes
Ingredients: cake mixture; buff colored icing; violet icing; white icing; crystallized violet; 2 mint leaves; candied cherries; citron stems; foliage

Washington S Birthday Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Bake the cake mixture in cups and let them cool.
Dip the cooled cakes into buff colored icing, violet icing, and white icing.
On the buff colored cakes, place a crystallized violet and two mint leaves.
On the violet colored icing, trace a letter 'W' with buff icing.
On the white icing, place a spray of candied cherries and citron stems with foliage.

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.