Mocha Cake No. 2

Ingredients

• Three eggs
• four tablespoons sugar
• five tablespoons flour
• three tablespoons melted butter
• one tablespoon brandy
• one teaspoon Royal baking powder
• Quarter cup butter
• one cup very strong black coffee
• two to three cups confectionery sugar
• teaspoon vanilla
• one tablespoon cornstarch
• one pint cream

Method

1. 1

   Stir sugar and yolks to a souffle; add melted butter, flour, baking powder, brandy, a pinch of salt; last add the whites of the eggs — well beaten.

2. 2

   Bake in cake tins — four layers — and fill.

3. 3

   For filling, make coffee, add sugar, heat until hot.

4. 4

   Dissolve cornstarch in half cup water, thicken coffee, stir on ice until cold.

5. 5

   Mix gently to whipped cream, add vanilla.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Swedish, French, American cook book (1918) by Hammond, Maria Mathilda (Ericsson) Mrs., page 582. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mocha Cake No. 1, a la Ericsson Hammond Gateau au Moka No. 1, a la Ericsson Hammond Five eggs, one cup powdered sugar, four tablespoons cold water, two tablespoons brandy, one cup flour, one teaspoon Royal baking powder, three tablespoons cornstarch, and a pinch of salt. How to Make It. Add sugar slowly to the yolks. Beat to a souffle for fifteen minutes, add cold water and brandy. Sift flour, baking powder, and cornstarch and add. Last add the whites of the eggs — wTell beaten. Bake slowly in oven thirty minutes. Filling. One cup strong Mocha coffee, one cup sugar, one teaspoon vanilla, one pound chopped mixed nuts, one tablespoon cornstarch, and one pint cream. How to Make the Filling. Add sugar to coffee, put in a saucepan on stove until hot. Dissolve the cornstarch in half cup water, thicken the coffee, stir on ice until cold. Mix gently to the cream (that has been whipped), add the vanilla. Fill the cake (that has been cut in four layers), sprinkle with the nuts after each filling; when done, frost with a boiled coffee frosting, sprinkle with nuts. Mocha Cake ( Gateau au Moka) No. 2 Three eggs, four tablespoons sugar, five tablespoons flour, three tablespoons melted butter, one tablespoon brandy, and one teaspoon Royal baking powder. How to Make It. Stir sugar and yolks to a souffle; add melted butter, flour, baking powder, brandy, a pinch of salt; last add the whites of the eggs — well beaten. Bake in cake tins — four layers — and fill. Filling. Quarter cup butter, one cup very strong black coffee, two to three cups confectionery sugar

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