Moist Chocolate Cake
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Moist Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup butter
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 1/3 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup hot mashed potatoes
  • 1/4 teaspoon clove
  • 1 ounce melted chocolate
  • 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

  1. Mix well.
  2. Cream the butter, add the sugar.
  3. Add the egg yolks, slightly beaten, and the potato.
  4. Stir, add the chocolate, milk and then all the dry ingredients which have been mixed and sifted together.
  5. Fold in the white of the eggs beaten stiffly.
  6. Add the vanilla.
  7. Pour into two layer-cake pans which have been prepared with waxed paper.
  8. Bake in a moderate oven for thirty minutes.
  9. Ice with white mountain cream icing.

Other Information

Author: Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron

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

Category: Dessert

Ingredients: butter, flour, sugar, baking powder, egg, cinnamon, potato, clove, chocolate, nutmeg, milk, vanilla

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

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