Chocolate Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• four eggs
• one cup of sugar
• one cup of flour
• one-half cup of chocolate
• four tablespoons of boiling water
• one teaspoon baking powder
• one pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   Cream the yolks and sugar, add the dissolved chocolate, then flour, and finally the stiffly beaten whites.

2. 2

   Bake in a slow oven in a large, shallow baking pan.

3. 3

   After the frosting has hardened, cut into small squares or, if in a spring form, cut the cake in half when cold and spread jam between.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Council cook book (1908), page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one teaspoon baking powder, one-half cup milk, and one cup chopped walnuts. Add the beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in layers and put sweetened whipped cream between the layers and on top. Reliable Cake. Yolks of four eggs creamed with one cup of granulated sugar, one cup of chocolate dissolved in four large tablespoons of boiling water, one teaspoon mixed spices, one heaping cup of flour, one teaspoon yeast powder, one-half cup chopped citron, vanilla. Add the four beaten whites. Bake in two layers. Put whipped cream between, or jam, or both, and the following boiled icing on top: Two tablespoons chocolate, two tablespoons granulated sugar, milk SOMMER & KAUfMANN Two Storei--119-125GraBt Ave. mr. Geary, 836-840 Market St., nr. Stocktea Good Shoes Only CAKES 133 enough to cover. Boil all for twenty minutes, and just before removing from the stove add a small piece of butter Pound Cake. One cup butter creamed with one cup granu- lated sugar, five eggs added two at a time, then one tablespoon brandy, one teaspoon vanilla and lemon flavoring, one-fourth teaspoon mace, two cups flour, one teaspoon yeast powder. Bake fifty minutes. To make a citron pound cake, add to above recipe one-half cup flour and one cup sliced citron that has been dredged in flour. Sponge Cake. Cream for fifteen minutes the yolks of six eggs and three unbeaten whites with two cups of granu- lated sugar. Add the three beaten whites, then pour in slowly one-half cup of boiling water, and lastly two and one-half cups of sifted flour, one teaspoon yeast powder, and one teaspoon vanilla. Bake in slow oven one hour. Chocolate Sponge Cake. Four eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of flour, one-half cup of chocolate (dissolved in four table- spoons of boiling water), one teaspoon baking pow- der, one pinch of salt

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