Christmas Cakes 1920

Creole Cake and Christmas Cakes, Good Housekeeping, December 1920. | GGA Image ID # 202c6dcf0a

As the holidays draw near again, the busy housewife turns her thoughts to Christmas sweets and goodies, for Christmas would be complete for the kids without the usual cakes and candies that the mother will indeed prepare.

During the holiday season, with its joyous round of festivities, there is a call for delicious homemade cake, as at no other time of the year!

These cakes must be the very choicest. A proper foundation is necessary, which means using flour specifically made for fine cake-making. Swans Down Cake Flour is such a flour. Use it to avoid costly cake failures and always ensure lighter, whiter, finer cake.

Swans Down Prepared (Not Self-Rising) Cake Flour, Preferred by Housewives for 25 Years. The Ladies' Home Journal, February 1921. | GGA Image ID # 202cb7e623

Creole Cake Recipe

• Gradually beat 1 cup of sugar into 2 eggs, beaten until light.
• Add 3 tablespoons of melted butter, or substitute.
• Add alternately 1/2 cup of milk with 1 1/3 cups of Swans Down Cake Flour, sifted, and 4 tablespoons of cocoa.
• 2 ½ teaspoons baking Powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon cinnamon.
• Bake in 2 layers in a moderate oven.
• Double the recipe for 2 large layers.
• Cover cake with white icing and decorate with halves of English Walnuts.

Ingredients

• 1 generous cup granulated sugar
• 1 scant cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup boiling water
• 2 egg whites, beaten stiff
• 1/2 teaspoonful vanilla extract
• 4 ounces of chocolate, melted

Directions

Melt the sugar in boiling water; wash down, cover, and let boil for 3 or 4 minutes; uncover and let boil to 240° F., then pour gradually onto the egg whites, beating constantly meanwhile. Add flavoring. Spread over the cake and, when firm, pour over the melted chocolate.

Blanke's Faust Instant Coffee. Perfect for Your Christmas Dinner and Year-Round. Good Housekeeping, December 1920. | GGA Image ID # 202cccc99b