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MIDNIGHT CAKE Recipe

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Category:
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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Shortening (1/2 cup)
Sugar (1 1/4 cups)
Eggs (2)
Hot Water (1 cup)
Cocoa (1/2 cup)
Sifted GOLD MEDAL “Kitchen-tested” Flour (1 1/2 cups)
Salt (1/2 tsp.)
Soda (1 tsp.)
Baking Powder (1 tsp.)
Vanilla (1 tsp.)

DOUBLE-BOILER ICING
Egg White (1)
Sugar (3/4 cup)
Cream of Tartar (1/8 tsp.)
Water (3 tbsp.)
Vanilla (or other flavoring) (1/2 tsp.)
Directions:
Directions:
CREAM shortening, add sugar gradually, and cream until fluffy. Blend in well beaten eggs. Slowly add hot water to cocoa and mix until smooth. Stir to dissolve completely. Sift flour, salt, soda, and baking powder together, and add to creamed mixture alternately with hot water and cocoa mixture. Blend in vanilla.
Pour into an 8-inch square pan (2 1/2 inches deep) which has been greased and lined with paper. Bake 50 to 55 minutes in a moderate oven (350°). When cool, spread Double-Boiler Icing (see below) over top and sides.
Icing:
Combine in top of double boiler the egg white, sugar, cream of tartar, and water, and beat together just enough to completely blend ingredients. Place over rapidly boiling water, and beat with rotary beater until mixture is white and very light. (Icing is done when it barely holds its shape and is not runny as beater is pulled out.) This takes 5 to 7 minutes depending on size of boiler and vigor of beating. Remove from over hot water, and do not beat any more. Fold in flavoring.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
For brides or very small families, make 1/2 the recipe . . . using 1/2 the amount of each ingredient and baking in a well greased and floured 8-inch round layer pan for about 30 to 35 minutes.

By popular demand! A recipe for a deliciously moist and tender “black” chocolate cake. Lovely to look at . . . with a dazzling snowy white icing for contrast. Inexpensive. Quick and easy to mix. All in all the perfect finale for even the most special occasion.
BETTY CROCKER.©

 

 

 

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