Chocolate Cake from the Settlement Cookbook-1965
- 2 cup cake flour
- 2 cup sugar
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 1/4 cup water
- 4 squares unsweetened chocolate
- 3 eggs - well beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 tsp baking powder
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- Grease and floor 2 nine inch Lauer pans, set aside.
- Sift flour, sugar, and salt together.
- Add butter and mix with fingertips or pastry blender to the consistency of corn meal.
- Boil water and chocolate.
- Cool.
- Add to butter mixture.
- Beat very well.
- Chill thoroughly.
- Add eggs, vanilla and baking powder.
- Pour mixture equally into pans and bake for 35-40 minutes, until cake tater or fork comes out clean when inserted in center.
cake flour, sugar, salt, butter, water, chocolate, eggs, vanilla, baking powder
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/340844-chocolate-cake-from-the-settlement-cookbook-1965 (may not work)