Chocolate Layer Cake

Ingredients

• Two eggs
• one-half cup butter
• one cup sugar
• one-half cup milk
• one and a half cups flour
• one teaspoonful baking powder
• one-half teaspoonful vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Stir butter and sugar to a cream, and add the eggs one at a time, stirring a few minutes between each addition; next add the vanilla, the sifted flour and milk alternately; bake in two paper-lined jelly tins in a medium hot oven.

2. 2

   Prepare a boiled chocolate glace; put some of the glace between the layers, and pour the rest over the top of the cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete cook book (1900) by Rees, Jennie Day Mrs., page 104. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE. Two eggs, one-half cup butter, one cup sugar, one- half cup milk, one and a half cups flour, sifted with one teaspoonful baking powder

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