Chocolate Ice Cream Cake

Ingredients

• Half a cup of butter
• one and a half cups of sugar
• four eggs
• two and a half cups of flour
• two teaspoons of baking powder
• enough melted chocolate to make the cake sufficiently dark

Method

1. 1

   Bake in layers.

2. 2

   For the filling, boil two cups of granulated sugar with half a cup of boiling water until it candies in cold water.

3. 3

   Pour the syrup into beaten egg whites, beat to a firm cream, flavor with vanilla, and spread between layers and over the top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooks in clover (1889), page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Ice Cream Cake. — Half a cup of but- ter, one and a half cups of sugar, four eggs, two and a half cups of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder, and enough melted chocolate to make the cake sulhciently dark. Bake in layers. Filling: — Two cups of granulated sugar, half a cup of boiling water, and the whites of two eggs. Boil the sugar and water together until the mixture will candy when dropped in cold water; pour the boiling syrup into the beaten whites of the eggs, and beat to a firm cream. Flavor with vanilla, and spread between the layers and over the top. Mrs. D. C. Cowirey. \ Ice Cream Cake. — The whites of eight eggs, one ' cup of butter, two cups of sugar, two cups of flour, • one cup of corn starch, one cup of milk, and three teaspoons of baking powder. Filling: — The whites of four eggs, four cups of| granulated sugar. Pour half a pint of boiling water \ over the sugar, and boil until candied and clear. Beat the eggs light, and pour the boiling sugar over them, beating to a stiff cream. Add one teaspoon of citric acid, and flavor with vanilla. Mrs. A. M. Collignon. Lemon Cake, I. — Two eggs, five tablespoons of milk, one cup of sugar, one and a quarter cups of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder; three layers. Filling:— -Two eggs beaten very light, half a cup of sugar, a teaspoon of butter, the grated rind of one and the juice of two lemons. Boil until thick, and spread between the layers, when cold. Mrs. F. M. Swan. Lemon Cake, II. — One and a half cups of sugar, half a cup of butter

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