Little Chocolate Cakes

Ingredients

• a quarter of a pint of hot water
• two ounces of butter
• one ounce of sugar
• two ounces and a half of finely-sifted flour
• two eggs

Method

1. 1

   In a saucepan, combine hot water, butter, and sugar.

2. 2

   When boiling, add flour gradually and stir until dry and stiff.

3. 3

   Remove from heat, stir for ten minutes, then add eggs one at a time.

4. 4

   Pipe onto a baking sheet and bake for about twenty minutes.

5. 5

   Once cool, fill with whipped cream and glaze with chocolate icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Little French dinners (1898) by Eveleen De Rivaz, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Little Chocolate Cakes). — Put a quarter of a pint of hot water into a small saucepan with two ounces of butter and one ounce of sugar. When the water, etc., boils, add gradually two ounces and a half of finely-sifted flour, and stir quickly till the mixture is quite dry and stiff. Take the saucepan off the fire and stir the con- tents for about ten minutes, then add two eggs

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