Chocolate Cake
- 1/4 cake Baker's chocolate
- 1 cup rich milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon heaping full of butter
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons Manhattan baking powder
- 2 eggs
- Murdock's Opt. vanilla
One-fourth cake Baker's chocolate, 1 cup rich milk, yolks of 2 large eggs; put over fire and boil until dissolved smoothly; then set aside and take a deep breath and when cool add tablespoon heaping full of butter; 1/2 cup milk, 1 1/2 cups sugar; mix thoroughly, then add 2 cups flour and 2 teaspoons Manhattan baking powder which have been sifted together; mix, and add whites of 2 large eggs beaten to a froth. Flavor with Murdock's Opt. vanilla; divide equally into 4 layers and bake in quick oven. When cold put together with boiled icing.
Submitted by Oct 13, 2009
15 min 30 min 45 min
15 min 30 min 45 min