Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 Lb. Butter
• 1 Cc. Buttermilk
• 1 C. Sugar
• 2 Scant C. Cake Flour
• 1 Scant tsp. Soda
• 2 Sq. unsweetened chocolate (melted)
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp. Vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour and soda together.

2. 2

   Cream butter and sugar well, add eggs one at a time, beating well after each is added.

3. 3

   Add melted chocolate.

4. 4

   Mix well.

5. 5

   Add flour and buttermilk alternately, a little at a time.

6. 6

   Add vanilla.

7. 7

   Bake in two 9" cake pans at 350° about 25 minutes.

8. 8

   Ice with 7-Minute icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Our favorite recipes (Wilshire Ward LDS, 1957) (1957) by Maude Frances Smeath Weight, page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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