Light Cakes
Ingredients
Directions
Bake the cake batter in square pans until done.
Allow the cake to cool completely.
Cut the cooled cake into oblong or square pieces.
Ice the top and sides of each piece.
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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