Marble Cake

Ingredients

• egg yolks
• egg whites
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 1 wineglass whiskey or brandy
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder
• butter
• spice cake batter
• filling
• caramel frosting

Instructions

1. Make up the egg-yolks into spice cake batter — this is the dark batter.
2. For the light batter, beat the whites very light and add them to three cups of sifted sugar that has been beaten smooth in a large cup of creamed butter.
3. Put in a wineglass of whiskey or brandy.
4. Then add three cups and a half flour, sifted three times with a heaping teaspoonful baking powder.
5. Put the light and dark batter by alternate spoonfuls in pans well buttered and papered. Let rise and bake the same as spice cake.
6. Else bake the light and dark batter in layers, put together with any good filling, and frost with caramel frosting.