Velvet Cake Recipe
Ingredients
½ cup butter1½ cups flour
1½ cups sugar
½ cup corn-starch
Yolks 4 eggs
4 teaspoons baking powder
½ cup cold water
Whites 4 eggs
1/3 cup almonds, blanched, and shredded
Instructions
1.Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs well beaten, and water.2.Mix and sift flour, corn-starch, and baking powder, and add to first mixture; then add whites of eggs beaten until stiff.
3.After putting in pan, cover with almonds and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
4.Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven.


