Chocolate Layer Cake

Ingredients

• Six eggs
• half-cupful of butter
• three cupfuls of sugar
• one cupful of milk
• four cupfuls of flour
• two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• 4 ozs. of chocolate, melted

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and sugar together, add beaten yolks of eggs, milk, and melted chocolate.

2. 2

   Stir well, then add sifted flour mixed with baking powder.

3. 3

   Finally, fold in the beaten whites of the eggs.

4. 4

   Bake in a ring-mould in a moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Layer Cake When your paste is ready and going to the oven, then mingle them to- gether. Your paste must be made of milk and butter, as stiff as for other paste. They must be pricked. Another way : — Take three eggs and beat very well, and as you beat them put as much fine flour as will make them stiff ; then put in three or four eggs more, and beat them all together ; then take one quart of cream and put into it % lb. of sweet butter, and set it over the fire, and when it begins to boil put it to your eggs and flour. Stir it very well, and let it boil till it be thick ; then season it with salt, cinnamon, sugar, and currants, and bake it in patty-pans. Cheese Cakes, Lemon (that will keep for several weeks). — To *4 lb. of butter put i lb. of white sugar, six eggs (leaving out two whites), the rinds of three lemons, grated, and the juice of three ; put them all into a pan and let them simmer over the fire until the sugar is dissolved and it begins to thicken like honey. When cold, put it into sweetmeat-pots for use. When made into cheese cakes — that is, warmed and put into pastry freshly made — add grated sweet biscuits. Chocolate Cake. — Six eggs, half- cupful of butter, three cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of milk, four cup- fuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, 4 ozs. of chocolate, melted

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.