$1,000 Square Dance Nut Cake

Ingredients

1 5/8 c pillsbury flour
2 ts baking powder
1/2 ts salt
1 c sugar
1/2 c soft butter
5/8 c milk
3 egg whites unbeaten
1/2 lemon extract
1/2 cup chp walnuts checkerboard frosting combine
1 tb warm milk
2 tb melted butter
2 1/4 c confectioners sugar
1 egg yolk
1/2 ts vanilla
1 melted chocolate
1 tb milk

Instructions

To 1/3 of the frosting. The rest leave plain. Follow the directions for mixing cake. Pour into a well greasedand lightly floured 8 x 8 x 2 pan. Bake 350 40-50 minutes. Cool follow the directions for putting together. Best of class senior contest--1950 Pillsbury Cookoff. This is a simple cake that looks fancy. All you do is cut the nut loaf cake into four squares. You frost with white frosting (2) and the other 2 with chocolate--Then arrange them checkerboard fashion and sprinkle nuts over the top. It is a quick mix variation. ----