Devil’s Food Cake I

Name: Devil’s Food Cake I
Ingredients: ½ cup butter; 2 cups sugar; Yolks 4 eggs; 1 cup milk; 2⅓ cups flour; 4 teaspoons baking powder; Whites 4 eggs; 2 squares chocolate; ½ teaspoon vanilla

Ingredients

½ cup butter
2 cups sugar
Yolks 4 eggs
1 cup milk
2⅓ cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
Whites 4 eggs
2 squares chocolate
½ teaspoon vanilla

Steps

Cream the butter, and add gradually one-half the sugar. Beat yolks of eggs until thick and lemon-colored, and add gradually remaining sugar. Combine mixtures, and add alternately milk and flour mixed and sifted with baking powder; then add whites of eggs beaten stiff, chocolate melted, and vanilla. Bake forty-five to fifty minutes in an angel cake pan. Cover with White Mountain Cream (see p. 528).

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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.