Featuring a richly colored illustration of a classic yellow layer cake with chocolate icing, this cookbook offers ideas for using Crescent baking powder to leaven many sweet and savory baked goods. The book also describes "Hurricake," a new method for cake baking utilizing only three steps and requiring the use of the Crescent Baking Powder.

Originally located at 122 S. Jackson, the Crescent Manufacturing Company was established in 1883 as a small company which specialized in vanilla extract. The company expanded rapidly during the Klondike Gold Rush by selling proprietary spice packets to miners. Crescent Manufacturing grew with their novel creation of an imitation maple flavoring, Mapleine, which would not lose flavor over time or with temperature fluctuation. The company went on to boast the "most modern communication" technology in their 1927 factory at 657 Dearborn, which also featured a variety of spice mills and coffee roasting equipment.