Devil's Food Cake

Ingredients

• three-quarters of a cup of butter
• one cup of sugar
• the beaten yolks of two eggs
• one and one-half cups of flour
• two scant teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• half a cup of milk
• three tablespoonfuls of cocoa
• half a teaspoonful of vanilla
• the two whites, beaten stiff

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add beaten yolks.

2. 2

   Sift flour with baking powder, then add alternately with milk.

3. 3

   Flavor with cocoa and vanilla, then fold in beaten egg whites.

4. 4

   Bake in layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for little girls (1910) by Olive Hyde Foster, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DEVIL'S FOOD CAKE A delicious chocolate cake, sometimes called Devil's Food, is made as follows : cream three- quarters of a cup of butter with one cup of sugar, 91 COOKERY FOR LITTLE GIRLS and add the beaten yolks of two eggs. Sift sev- eral times one and one-half cups of flour with two scant teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and stir in, alternating with half a cup of milk. Flavor with three tablespoon fuls of cocoa (or two squares of unsweetened chocolate, grated), and half a tea- spoonful of vanilla, and lastly add the two whites, beaten stiff

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