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Chocolate Layer Cake

4 squares chocolate. 3 tablespoons boiling water. 1½ cup Cottolene. 11/2 cups sugar. 1/2 cup milk. 2 cups pastry flour. 2 teaspoons baking powder. 1/4 teaspoon salt. 3 eggs. 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla.

PROCESS: Melt chocolate over hot water, add boiling water and cook over hot water until smooth, stirring constantly. Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually, stirring constantly; add chocolate mixture. Add yolks of eggs well beaten. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt, add alternately to first mixture with milk. Add flavoring, and cut and fold in the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Turn into buttered layer cake pans and bake fifteen minutes in a hot oven. Spread with Boiled Frosting (for recipe see Page 56) and sprinkle with shredded toasted almonds before frosting sets.