Chocolate Caramel Cake

Ingredients

• One-half cake shaved bakers chocolate
• one cup sugar
• one and one-half cups milk
• yolk of one egg
• two-thirds cup butter
• one cup sugar
• two eggs
• one cup milk
• two teaspoonfuls baking powder
• one teaspoonful vanilla
• two and one-half cups flour
• one -and one-half cups sugar
• one-half cup milk

Method

1. 1

   For the caramel part, boil chocolate, sugar, milk, and egg yolk until thick.

2. 2

   For the cake part, mix butter, sugar, eggs, milk, baking powder, vanilla, and flour.

3. 3

   For frosting, boil sugar and milk until thick, then add vanilla.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Caramel Cake. Caramel Part. — One-half cake shaved bakers chocolate, one cup sugar, one and one-half cups milk, yolk of one egg. Boil until thickens, like honey, then let cool. Cake Part. — two-thirds cup butter, one cup sugar, two eggs, one cup milk, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one tea- spoonful vanilla, two and one-half cups flour. Frosting. — One -and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup milk

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