Name: Gold and Silver Cake
Ingredients: silver cake batter; cochineal (for coloring); frosting

Gold and Silver Cake

Ingredients

silver cake batter
cochineal (for coloring)
frosting

Directions

Divide the silver cake batter into three portions.
Color one portion pink with a little cochineal.
Layer the pink, white, and yellow batters in a baking dish.
Frost the top of the cake.
To create a marbled effect, alternate spoonfuls of each batter until the dish is full.

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.