Cocoa Squares

Ingredients

• One cup butter creamed
• one and one-half cups granulated sugar
• four heaping teaspoons cocoa
• two cups sifted flour
• one cup milk
• one and one-half teaspoons yeast powder
• vanilla
• the four beaten whites

Method

1. 1

   Bake twenty minutes in a well greased, large, shallow pan.

2. 2

   After removing cake from the oven, spread over it the following icing, while the cake is still warm: four teaspoons cocoa, dissolved in two tablespoons boiling water, one teaspoon vanilla, and one cup powdered sugar, gradually added.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Council cook book (1908), page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cocoa Squares. One cup butter creamed with one and one-half cups granulated sugar, add well beaten yolks of four eggs, four heaping teaspoons cocoa, two cups sifted flour, one cup milk, one and one-half teaspoons yeast powder, vanilla ; lastly, the four beaten whites

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