Dream Cakes

Origin: Clarksville, Tennessee

Source: Martha McCulloch-Williams, 1913

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Cream well half a cup butter.
  2. Add a cup and a half of sugar, half a cup cold water, two cups flour sifted twice with two teaspoonfuls baking powder, a teaspoonful lemon extract, and the stiffly beaten whites of six eggs.
  3. Bake in small shapes.
  4. Frost with boiled frosting, and ornament with tiny pink candies.

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