Chocolate Cake with Marshmallow Icing

Ingredients

• half cup butter
• one-quarter cup cocoa
• yolks of three eggs
• one cup sugar
• a teaspoon cinnamon
• a half cup cold water
• the beaten whites of three eggs
• one and one-quarter cups flour
• two teaspoons baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add cocoa, egg yolks, sugar, cinnamon, and cold water.

2. 2

   Lastly, fold in beaten egg whites and flour.

3. 3

   Bake in layers and use boiled icing with dissolved marshmallows.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book (1907) by Marian B. Sexton, page 90. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH MARSHMALLOW ICING. Mrs. Mabel Ahlenius, Galesburg. Cream half cup butter, add one-quarter cup cocoa, yolks of three eggs well beaten, one cuo sugar, a tea- spoon cinnamon and a half cup cold water, lastly the beaten whites of three eggs and one and one-quarter cups flour and two teaspoons baking powder. Bake in layers, using boiled icing containing one dozen dis- solved marshmallows. FRENCH CREAM CAKE. Mrs. Dora Dougherty. Whites of five eggs, two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three and a half cups flour, two teaspoons of baking powder. Filling: — One tablespoon cornstarch, dissolved in milk, yolks o'f two eggs, one-half cup sugar, a small piece of butter. Have one pint of sweet milk boiling, stir in the ingredients and boil until the thickness of cream ; when cool, spread between layers. Flavor with pineapple. 188 CAKES SPICED FIG CAKE. Miss Linnie Brewer. One cup butter, one cup milk, two cups sugar, four cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, five yolks and two whites of eggs, or seven yolks, using three whites for frosting. Flavor with fresh lemon.. Mix in usual way. Bake in three pans, adding to one, two tea- spoons of cinnamon, one-half teaspoon cloves, nutmeg and vanilla. Use this last for the middle layer. Put together with boiled icing, using two-thirds cups of sugar to each egg. Have one pound of chopped figs simmered in a little water till tender, and dried off by spreading on a plate. Put between the layers with the. icing. This makes a large loaf. HICKORY NUT CAKE. Mrs. Lillie Chesher. Four eggs, two cups sugar, one-half cup butter, two and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking pow- der. Bake in layers and between the layers spread the following cream : Two eggs, one cup sugar

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