Name: A Child's Birthday Cake
Ingredients: little cakes (made in gem pans); tiny dolls (penny variety); icing (as desired)

A Child's Birthday Cake

Oven, in the book's wordsA very slow oven

Ingredients

little cakes (made in gem pans)
tiny dolls (penny variety)
icing (as desired)

Directions

Bake little cakes in gem pans.
When ready for icing, make a small hole in the top of each cake.
Slip a tiny doll into each hole.
Ice the cakes as desired to hold the dolls in place.

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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A Child's Birthday Cake