Devil's Food Cake
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Devil's Food Cake

Ingredients

  • 2 cup brown sugar
  • 3 squares chocolate
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 teaspoon soda
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

  1. Cream the butter, add one cup sugar.
  2. Mix egg yolks, the other cup sugar, one-half cup milk and chocolate; cook two minutes, stirring constantly.
  3. When cool, add this to the first mixture.
  4. Add the rest of the milk, vanilla, the flour and soda sifted together.
  5. Beat two minutes.
  6. Add stiffly beaten egg whites.
  7. Fill two tin pans prepared with waxed paper, bake in a moderate oven twenty-five minutes.
  8. When cool, ice with white icing.

Other Information

Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron

Source: A Thousand Ways To Please a Husband (1917-01-01)

Category: Dessert

Ingredients: brown sugar, chocolate, milk, flour, butter, soda, egg, vanilla

Equipment: measuring cups, measuring spoons, oven, egg beater, sifter, stove

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