Family Cookbook
source Gram Reed from a cookbook she received as a wedding present
What makes this cake is the frosting. I have been known to cheat and buy 3 cake mixes, white, german chocolate and devils food and make one layer from each mix...either making two cakes, making left-over cupcakes or just wasting some batter.
Required Ingredients
Cake: |
| 3 | Cup | Swans Down Cake Flour |
| 3 | Teaspoon | Calumet Baking Powder |
| ½ | Teaspoon | Salt |
| ⅔ | Cup | Butter (or other shortening) |
| 1 ½ | Cup | Sugar |
| 2 | | Eggs plus 2 egg yolks, beaten well |
| 1 | Cup | Milk |
| 1 | Teaspoon | Vanilla |
| 3 | Ounce | Bakers unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled |
| 2 | Tablespoon | Sugar |
| ¼ | Cup | Hot Water |
| ½ | Teaspoon | Soda |
| 2 | Tablespoon | Butter |
Felicity Frosting |
| 2 | | Egg whites, unbeaten |
| 7 | Tablespoon | Water |
| 2 | Cup | Brown Sugar, firmly packed |
| Pinch | Salt |
Chocolate Glaze |
| 2 | Ounce | Bakers unsweetened chocolate |
| 2 | Teaspoon | Butter |
Preparation Instructions
- Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt and sift again three times.
- Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well.
- Add the flour mixture alternatively with the milk a small amount at a time.beating after each addition until smooth. Add vanilla and beat in.
- Combine chocolate, sugar, hot water, soda and butter. Mix well and cool slightly.
- Grease three loose-bottom 9-inch layer cake pans. Pour a generous ? of the batter into one pan.
- Pour the chocolate mixture into the remaining batter and stir until mixed. Divide the chocolate batter between the two remaining pans
- Bake in 375° oven about 30 minutes or until done. Cool layers on racks.
- Make the felicity frosting: Combine egg whites, water, sugar and salt in the top of a double boiler beating with a rotary egg beater until mixed. Place over rapidly boiling water, beat constantly with rotary egg beater and cook 7 minutes or until frosting will stand in peaks. Remove from fire, but keep over hot water and beat two minutes longer. Place over cold water and continue beating 3 minutes.
- To assemble cake spread each layer with the Felicity frosting. Place a chocolate layer on the bottom, then the light layer, then the second chocolate layer. The frost the side with the remaining Felicity frosting.
- When the frosting is set, melt the last 2 squares of the Bakers unsweetened chocolate with the 2 teaspoon of butter and blend. Drizzle the chocolate over the top of the frosted cake and let it drip down the sides.