Mrs. Ergmann. Jr.'S Chocolate Layer Cake

One and one-half cups sugar, one-half cup butter, three yolks of eggs, save whites for icing; one and one-half cups milk, one cake chocolate, melted; flavor with vanilla, two teaspoons baking powder, and flour to make stiff enough to bake.

Icing For Cake

Whites of three eggs and powdered sugar (do not beat eggs before using sugar), put a handful of sugar on whites of eggs before beating; use enough sugar to make icing as hard as wanted. - Mrs. Ergnann, Jr., Los Angeles, Calif.

Rich Chocolate Cake

Cream one-half cup butter and add gradually while beating constantly, one cup brown sugar, two eggs well beaten, one-half cup milk, two cups flour, one teaspoon soda mixed with one tablespoon cold water and the whites of three eggs beaten stiff. Melt four squares unsweetened chocolate, add two-thirds cup brown sugar, one cup milk, yolk of one egg. Cook in double boiler until thick; when cool, add to first mixture. Add one and one-half cups walnut meats, and one-half cup citron cut in small pieces, two -teaspoons vanilla. Bake in moderate oven in loaf forty-five minutes. - Mrs. J. D. La Chance, Winslow, Ariz.

Stirred Chocolate Cake

One cup granulated sugar, one-half cup butter, three-fourths cup sweet milk, yolks of three eggs, one whole egg, two cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, four squares Baker's chocolate grated. Cream the butter and sugar. Add eggs well beaten, then milk and flour and lastly the chocolate which must be dissolved with hot water. Beat, bake in two layers, and put together with boiled icing, or chocolate icing with nuts in. Flavor with vanilla. - Mrs. George Swigart, Manistee, Mich.

Chocolate Marshmallow Cake

Ingredients:- -One-half cup butter, two cups sugar, one-half cup milk, two cups flour, three eggs, two teaspoons baking powder, one-fourth cake chocolate, one-half cup boiling water, one teaspoon vanilla. Method:- Dissolve the chocolate in the water. Cream the butter and add gradually one-half the sugar. Beat yolks until thick and then gradually add remaining sugar. Combine mixtures and add alternately milk and flour mixed, sifted with baking powder. Then add stiffly beaten whites of eggs, the melted chocolate and vanilla. Bake forty-five to fifty minutes in cake pan with a tube. Cover with marshmallow frosting. - Mrs. W. A. Richardson, Los Angeles, Calif.

Cocoa Cake

One and three-fourths cups of sugar and one-half cup of butter, creamed together; teaspoonful vanilla, three-fourths cup of cocoa, one cup of sour milk, one teaspoon of soda in milk, two cups of flour. - Mrs. G. A. Haslett, Winslow, Ariz.