Chocolate Cinnamon Cake

Ingredients

• One-half cupful of butter
• two-thirds cupful of sugar
• two eggs
• one and one-half cupfuls of flour
• two level teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• three level teaspoonfuls of ground cinnamon
• one-half cupful of milk
• a pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter and sugar well together, then add the eggs, one at a time, beating them well into the mixture.

2. 2

   Sift together flour, baking-powder, salt, and cinnamon, and add alternately with the milk, mixing thoroughly.

3. 3

   Turn into two layer cake pans that have been previously lined with soft paper.

4. 4

   Bake in a moderate oven for twenty-five minutes and if possible leave in the pans until cold.

5. 5

   Frost and fill with chocolate filling.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 174. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE CINNAMON CAKE. One-half cupful of butter, two-thirds cupful of sugar, two eggs, one and one-half cupfuls of flour, two level teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, three level teaspoonfuls of ground cinnamon, one-half cupful of milk and a pinch of salt

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