Mocha Cake

Ingredients

• Flour, 1 cup
• Sugar, 1 cup
• Eggs, 2
• Milk, % cup
• Butter, 2 tablespoons
• Baking-powder, 1 teaspoon
• Vanilla, 1 teaspoon
• Confectioner's sugar, 1 cup
• Cocoa, 2 teaspoons
• Butter, 14 cup
• Strong-made coffee, 2 tablespoons

Method

1. 1

   Stir the sugar and eggs together, then add the flour.

2. 2

   Heat the milk and butter and add last.

3. 3

   Bake in 2 layers.

4. 4

   For filling, mix confectioner's sugar, cocoa, butter, and coffee, and put between layers and on top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Around-the-world cook book (1913) by Mary Louise Barroll, page 83. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Flour, 1 cup, Sugar, 1 cup, Eggs, 2, Milk, % cup. Butter, 2 tablespoons. Baking-powder, 1 teaspoon, Vanilla, 1 teaspoon. In making the layers, stir the sugar and eggs together, then add the flour. The milk and butter should be heated and put in last. Bake in 2 layers. This makes a small cake. 245 CAKE AROUND-THE-WORLD COOK BOOK Filling for Mocha Cake Confectioner's sugar, 1 cup, Cocoa, 2 teaspoons, Butter, 14 cup, Strong-made coffee, 2 tablespoons. Put the filling between the layers, and on top. JVLARSHMALLOW CAKE Butter, 1 cup, Sugar, 2 cups, Milk, 1 cup. Eggs, 4, Flour, 4 cups. Baking-powder, 3 large teaspoons. Vanilla, 1 teaspoon. Salt, % teaspoon. Bake the layers in 3 thick, or 4 thinner layers. Filling for Marshmallow Cake Marshmallow candies, % pound, Granulated sugar, 1 cup. Egg, 1 (white only). Put the marshmallows on an agate dish, and place in an open oven until they have melted and run together. In the meantime make a boiled icing with 1 cup of sugar and % cup of hot water, and boil until the syrup hairs; then pour over it the stiffly beaten white of 1 Qgg. Add the melted marshmallows to this, beat slowly for 5 minutes, spread on the cake, between the layers, and on top. For the top layer put a number of marshmallows on a skewer, hold before the open fire, till they puff, and brown ; then place them round the edge of the cake. 246 AROUND-THE-WORLD COOK BOOK CAKE FUDGE CAKE Butter, 1 cup, Sugar, 1 cup, Milk, 1 cup, Flour, 3 cups, Pecan nuts, % cup, Grated chocolate, Vi ^^ip, Eggs, 2, Baking-powder, 1 teaspoon. Cream the butter with the sugar, add the milk, and choco- late, eggs, sifted flour, and baking-powder, and last of all the nuts, broken and dredged with flour. Bake in layers, and put together with the fudge filling here given. Cover all with boiled icing. Filling for Fudge Cake Sugar, 2 cups, Chocolate, 14 cup. Milk, % cup

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