Chocolate Cake

1/2 cup butter

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

4 level teaspoons baking powder

1 cup sweet milk

3 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon almond

3 eggs

1/2 cup Baker's chocolate

1/4 teaspoon salt

Method :

Cream the butter, add sugar and cream together. Sift the flour with the baking powder. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler. Beat the whites and the yolks of the eggs separately, then put all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat five minutes. Pour in a buttered loaf tin and bake in a moderate oven for thirty-five minutes. This makes a very light cake. It may be iced with seven minute icing.

Louise Silcott, Xi.

Dora's Chocolate Cake

1/2 cake Baker's chocolate I cup buttermilk 3/4 cup butter 1 1/2 cups sugar 5 egg yolks

2 cups flour 2 teaspoons soda 5 egg whites vanilla

Method :

Cook chocolate and buttermilk together. When smooth, set to cool. Cream the butter and sugar and add egg yolks. To this add the cooked chocolate. Add flour and soda, then whites of eggs and flavoring. Bake in moderate oven.

Philadelphia Alumnae.

Lightning Chocolate Cake

1 1/2 squares bitter chocolate

3 tablespoons butter (melted together)

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup milk

1 cup flour sifted with

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

Method :

Do not stir until ingredients are all added. Bake thirty to forty minutes in a moderate oven.

Lelia Harwood Smith, Xi.

Chocolate Cream Cake

1 cup sugar

3 eggs

1/2 cup water

1 1/2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

3/4 teaspoon salt

Method :

Cream sugar and eggs. Add water. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together three times. Then add to ingredients. Bake in two layer pans twenty-five minutes.

Filling:

1 pint milk

2 tablespoons cornstarch

2 eggs

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup melted butter

1 tablespoon flavoring

Method :

Mix milk and cornstarch together. Add beaten eggs. Place in double boiler and cook until it thickens. Beat lumps out and gradually add sugar. Mix in melted butter. Add flavoring when cool.

Frosting:

Three-fourths cup sugar, add just enough water to cover and boil until it hairs. Do not stir. Beat white of one egg stiff and fold in with ingredients. Add two squares of melted chocolate. Beat until thick.

Elinor Flannery.

Good Chocolate Layer Cake

2 squares bitter chocolate, melted

1 cup granulated sugar

2 tablespoons butter

1 cup sour cream

1 teaspoon soda

2 eggs beaten separately

1 1/2 cups flour sifted three times

1 teaspoon baking powder

Method :

Cream butter well, add sugar, chocolate, sour cream yolks of eggs and beat for several minutes with egg beater until no granulated sugar can be detected. Add flour and baking powder and lastly fold in whites of eggs.

Frances Fribley Meharg, Xi.