Witch Cake Recipe

Cream one half cupful of butter with one and one half cupfuls of sugar;

add three eggs and beat five minutes; add one cupful of milk. Sift

together one third cupful of cornstarch, and two cupfuls of flour, one

and one half teaspoonfuls of ground mixed spices, and three teaspoonfuls

of baking powder; then add to the mixture. Now add one cupful of seeded

floured raisins, also one cupful of chopped nuts. Turn into a well

greased loaf cake pan and bake in a moderate oven about forty-five

minutes. Frost with a white boiled icing. Melt sweet chocolate to equal

one third cupful, flavor with a teaspoonful of lemon juice, add one

cupful of boiled chestnuts which have been run through the meat grinder,

and enough confectionery sugar to make a paste easily handled. Roll and

cut (by pasteboard pattern) black cats or any other Halloween figure,

press them into the icing on the sides of the cake.