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| English: A chocolate cake decorated with icing, strawberries, and silvery sugar beads. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream, and gradually beat into it one cupful of
sugar. When this is light, beat in half a cupful of milk, a little at a time, and one
teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff
froth. Mix half a teaspoonful of
baking powder with two scant cupfuls of sifted flour. Stir the flour and whites of eggs alternately into the mixture. Have three deep tin plates well
buttered, and spread two-thirds of the batter in two of them.
Into the remaining batter stir one ounce of Chocolate, melted, and spread this batter in the third plate. Bake the cakes in a moderate oven for about twenty minutes. Put a layer of
white cake on a large plate, and spread with white icing. Put the dark cake on this, and also spread with white icing. On this put the third cake. Spread with
chocolate icing.
TO MAKE THE ICING. Put into a granite-ware
saucepan two gills of sugar and one of water, and boil gently until bubbles begin to come from the bottom—say, about five minutes. Take from the fire instantly. Do not stir or shake the sugar while it is cooking. Pour the hot syrup in a thin stream into the whites of two eggs that have been beaten to a stiff froth, beating the mixture all the time. Continue to beat until the icing is thick. Flavor with one teaspoonful of vanilla. Use two-thirds of this as a white icing, and to the remaining third add one ounce of melted chocolate. To melt the chocolate, shave it fine and put in a cup, which is then to be placed in a pan of boiling water.
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