Velvet Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 cupful of granulated or powdered sugar  
• 1 cupful of sifted flour 
• 1 teaspoonful of Dixie baking powder
• 1/2 cupful of boiling water 

Directions

Cake 

1. By the use of one more egg any layer cake maybe made better than with butter.
2. Save 2 white sout for frosting.
3. Use the other egg and 2 yolks for the cake.
4. Beat 2 eggs lightly.
5. Beat in 1 cupful of granulated or powdered sugar. 
6. Beat in 1/2 cup of sifted flour.
7. Beat in 1/2 cupful of flour sifted with 1 teaspoonful of Dixie baking powder.
8. Lastly, beat in 1/2 cupful of boiling water gradually.
9. Bake in layer cake tins and have the tin buttered.
10. Fill and bake immediately in a well heated oven.
11. The batter will seem very thin, but the cake is excellent.

Frosting 

1. Whip the whites stiff.
2. Stir in sugar.
3. Spread between each layer, and over the top.

Extras For Frosting 

1. For cocoanut cake, sprinkle cocoanut over the frosting between the layers, and thickly over the top layer.
2. For chocolate, 1/2 teacupful of Baker's chocolate, and stir in the frosting, and use as before.

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Renee Glaser
Louisiana Anthology
March 16, 2022