Cake: Chocolate
Chocolate Cake. 1 cupful sugar, cupful butter, 2 eggs, cupful milk, 1½ cupfuls flour, 2½ teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, 2 squares Runkel's Chocolate, teaspoonful McIlhenny's Mexican Vanilla, Dash salt.
Beat the butter and sugar together to a cream, add the yolks of eggs which have been well beaten, then the milk, the flour sifted with the baking powder and salt. Beat till light and frothy, add the vanilla and melted chocolate, last the whites of eggs whipped stiff. Bake in a long narrow pan, and when cool, cover with a white frosting.
Chocolate Layer Cake. cupfuls sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls butter, 1 egg, ½ cupful milk, 1 cupfuls flour, 2 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder, Dash salt, teaspoonful McIlhenny's Mexican Vanilla.
Cream the butter and sugar together, add the egg beaten to a froth, then the milk, flour sifted with baking powder, and vanilla. Bake in one deep layer cake tin; when the cake is cool, split in two shortcake fashion, and cover the smooth top of each layer with a chocolate frosting.
Cocoa Sponge. cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, 3 eggs, + cupful Runkel's Cocoa, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful cloves, cupful milk, 2 cupfuls flour, 3 teaspoonfuls Calumet baking powder.