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Easy chocolate Layer cake recipe
This great easy chocolate layer cake is perfect for any occasion. Use this recipe and you will not look back. sign up for the easy chocolate video tutorials.
CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE
Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream, and gradually beat into
it one cupful of sugar. When this is light, beat in half a cupful
of milk, a little at a time, and one teaspoonful of vanilla.
Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth. Mix half a teaspoonful
of baking powder with two scant cupfuls of sifted flour. Stir
the flour and whites of eggs alternately into the mixture.
Have three deep tin plates well buttered, and spread two-thirds
of the batter in two of them.
Into the remaining batter stir one ounce of Walter Baker &
Co.'s Premium No. 1 Chocolate, melted, and spread this batter
in the third plate. Bake the cakes in a moderate oven for
about twenty minutes.
Put a layer of white cake on a large plate, and spread with
white icing. Put the dark cake on this, and also spread with
white icing. On this put the third cake.
Spread with chocolate icing.
TO MAKE THE ICING. Put into a granite-ware saucepan two gills
of sugar and one of water, and boil gently until bubbles begin
to come from the bottom—say, about five minutes. Take
from the fire instantly. Do not stir or shake the sugar while
it is cooking.
Pour the hot syrup in a thin stream into the whites of two
eggs that have been beaten to a stiff froth, beating the mixture
all the time. Continue to beat until the icing is thick.
Flavor with one teaspoonful of vanilla. Use two-thirds of
this as a white icing, and to the remaining third add one
ounce of melted chocolate. To melt the chocolate, shave it
fine and put in a cup, which is then to be placed in a pan
of boiling water.
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