1 1/2 c Sifted cake flour
1 1/2 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Salt
4 tb Butter
1 c Sugar
1/2 c Buttermilk
2 Eggs, well beaten
1/2 c Boiling water
2 oz Bitter chocolate
1 ts Soda
1 ts Vanilla
Sift flour, baking powder and salt 3 times. Cream butter and sugar.
Add well-beaten eggs to creamed mixture. Then add the flour and milk
alternately to the butter-sugar-egg mixture. Melt chocolate with
boiling water over low heat; add soda and stir well. Cool chocolate
before adding it to the batter. Then stir in vanilla. Grease cake
pans and line them with waxed paper (two 9 inch pans). Bake at 350
degrees for 25 minutes. (Batter will be thin.) Frost with vanilla
icing.
SOURCE: National Cooking Echo 04/19/90 Contributed to the echo by:
Ellen Cleary Originally from: “The Charlotte Cookbook”, by Jr. League
of Charlotte, N. C.
Yields
1 servings