Fancy Mini Cakes

TinyArtist

  Fancy Cakes  Ingredients  

• 1/2  cup  butter
• 1/2  cup  milk
• 1  cup  sugar
• 1 3/4  cup  flour
• 8    egg yolks
• 2  teaspoon  baking powder
• 2  teaspoon  lemon extract
  

  Directions  

• Cream the butter, add the sugar and mix well.
• Beat the egg-yolks until very thick, and add to the first mixture, mix and sift together the flour and baking-powder and add the milk alternately with the flour mixture, beating well.
• · Beat two minutes after mixing.
• Add the extract.
• Pour to the thickness of one inch into flat pans lined with buttered paper.
• Bake twelve minutes in a moderate 350° oven.
• Remove from the fire and when cool, cut into shapes with fancy animal cutters.
• The individual cakes may be iced if desired.