Walnut Layer Cake

Name: Walnut Layer Cake
Ingredients: American frosting, using 8 oz. sugar, etc.; American frosting, using 8 oz. sugar, etc.; 1–2 teasp. coffee essence; 2 oz. chopped walnuts; 2 oz. butter or margarine; 4 oz. icing sugar; 2 teasp. coffee essence; pinch of salt; 2 oz. butter or margarine; 1 level teasp. baking-powder; 6 oz. castor sugar; 6 oz. butter or margarine; 6 oz. plain flour; 3 eggs; 6 oz. butter or margarine

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1871

About

Ingredients

6 oz. butter or margarine
6 oz. castor sugar
3

Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Cream fat and sugar; beat in the eggs, one at a time. Fold in the sifted flour, baking-powder and salt and add coffee essence. Put mixture into a 6-in. lined cake-tin (or it may be baked in 2 or 3 sandwich cake-tins) and bake in a moderate oven (350° F., Gas 4) for 1 hr. Cut the cake into