Devil Cake

Ingredients

• one cup of grated chocolate
• one cup of brown sugar
• one-half cup of sweet milk
• yolk of one egg
• a teaspoon vanilla
• one cup brown sugar
• two cups flour
• one-half cup butter
• half cup sweet milk
• two eggs
• two teaspoons baking powder
• two cups white sugar
• ten tablespoons hot water
• one quarter teaspoon cream tartar
• thirty-two marshmallows
• one cup chopped walnuts

Method

1. 1

   For the custard part, stir together grated chocolate, brown sugar, sweet milk, egg yolk, and vanilla in a saucepan; cook slowly and cool.

2. 2

   For the cake part, cream butter, sugar, and yolks, add milk, sifted flour, beaten egg whites, and baking powder; mix and stir in custard.

3. 3

   Bake in jelly tins.

4. 4

   For filling, boil sugar and water with cream tartar until thick, add marshmallows, then beaten egg whites and walnuts.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 90. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DEVIL CAKE. Mrs. W. O. Chap- man, 1330 West Sixteenth street, Los Ange- les—For the custard part one cup of grated chocolate, one cup of brown sugar, one-half cup of sweet milk, yolk of one egg and a teaspoon vanilla; stir all together in a gran- ite saucepan; cook slowly and set away to cool. For the cake part, one cup brown sugar, two cups flour, one-half cup butter, half cup sweet milk and two eggs. Cream the but- ter, sugar and yolks of eggs, add milk, sifted 54 COOKING AND OTHER RECIPES. flour and whites of eggs beaten stiff, and two teaspoons baking powder; beat all together, then stir in the custard part; bake in jelly- tins. FILLING: Two cups white sugar, ten tablespoons hot water, one quarter teaspoon cream tartar; boil until thick like candy. Put thirty-two marshmallows in, boil up again, then stir in beaten whites of three eggs; when almost cool stir in one cup chopped walnuts

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