er hours in a moderate oven. When cold cover with frosting.

_For chocolate frosting_. Knead Crisco into sugar. Melt chocolate,
add coffee, sugar, salt, and Crisco, and stir until thick, then add
vanilla and put away to cool. When cold spread on cake. This frosting
may be used any time. It is just as good made one day and used the
next by adding a little more hot coffee. It is always soft, creamy and
delicious.

Sufficient for one cake.

Cocoanut Layer Cake

For Cake

1 cupful sugar
3 cupfuls flour
1/2 teaspoonful salt
4 eggs
1/2 cupful Crisco
1 cupful milk
2 teaspoonfuls vanilla extract
3 teaspoonfuls baking powder

For Filling

1 teaspoonful Crisco
1 cupful sugar
1 cupful water
Pinch cream of tartar
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1 white of egg
1/2 cupful chopped cocoanut
1/4 teaspoonful salt

_For cake_. Cream Crisco and sugar together, sift the flour, baking
powder, and salt, and add alternately with the beaten yolks of eggs
and milk. Beat thoroughly, then add stiffly beaten whites of eggs and
flavoring and mix gently. Grease layer tins with Crisco then flour
them and divide mixture into three portions. Bake in a moderate oven
twenty minutes.

_For filling_. Boil water and sugar together, add Crisco and cream of
tartar, and boil until it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water,
or 240 deg. F. Beat white of egg to stiff froth, add salt, then pour in
syrup gradually, add vanilla and beat until thick and cold. Spread on
cake and sprinkle over with cocoanut.

Sufficient for three layers.

Coffee Layer Cake

Dark Part

1 cupful dark brown sugar
2/3 cupful cold strong coffee
3 yolks of eggs
1/2 cupful Crisco
1 tablespoonful molasses
1/4 cupful raisins
2 cupfuls flour
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1/2 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
1/2 teaspoonful powdered cloves
1/2 teaspoonful grated nutmeg
1/2 teaspoonful salt

White Part

1/2 cupful Crisco
1 cupful granulated sugar
3 whites of eggs
2/3 cupful milk
2 cupfuls flour
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoonful salt

_For dark part_. Cream Crisco and sugar, add yolks well beaten,
coffee, molasses, flour, salt, baking powder, spices and raisins.
Mix and divide into two Criscoed and floured layer tins and bake in
moderately hot oven twenty minutes.

_For white part_. Cream Crisco and sugar, add milk, vanilla,