Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• one cup of butter
• two cups of sugar
• four cups of flour
• four eggs
• three teaspoons of Royal Baking Powder
• one cup sweet milk

Method

1. 1

   For frosting, melt half a cake of Baker's chocolate with half a cup of pulverized sugar and enough hot water to cover.

2. 2

   Heat for three minutes, then cool and add vanilla.

3. 3

   Spread on the cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 139. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

four cups of flour and three teaspoons of baking powder; divide in four equal parts, and put in baking tins or jelly pans ; use the jelly as in other cases while the cake is hot. JELLY CAKE — MADE WITH THE YOLKS OF EGGS. Mrs. Brown. One and one-half cups sugar, one-halt cup butter, one- half cup milk, one egg and yolks of four; stir well, then sift in two cups flour and two teaspoons baking powder ; bake in five cakes. This makes a delicious cocoanut cake by spreading between, and on the top of the cakes, VALUABLE KKCIPES. 353 instead of jelly, a soft frosting, thickly strewn with des- sicated cocoanut, which has been soaked half an hour in warm milk. CHOCOLATE CAKE. Mrs. Monroe Frank. One cup of butter, two cups sugar, four cups flour, four eggs, three teaspoons of Royal Baking Powder, one cup sweet milk

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