MARTHA WASHINGTON’S DEVIL’S FOOD

Servings: 1
Ingredients:

4 oz Unsweetened Chocolate
1 c  Sugar
1/2 c  Buttermilk; or sour milk
1/2 c  Cake Flour; sifted
1 1/2 ts Baking Powder
3/4 ts Soda
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 c  Butter; or sbortening
3/4 c  Sugar
3    Eggs; well beaten
1 c  Buttermilk; or sour milk
1 ts Vanilla

Melt chocolate over boiling water; add 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup
butterrmilk and stir over boiling water until sugar is dissolved.
Cool. Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, soda, and salt and
sift together three times. Cream butter thoroughly add 3/4 cup
sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs
and beat well. Add about 1/4 of flour mixture, mix thoroughly; add
chocolate mixture and blend. Add remaining flour, altenately with
buttermilk, a small Amount at a time; beat very thoroughly after each
addition. Add vanilla. Bske in greased 15×9x2- inch pan, in a
moderate oven ( 35O degrees F.) 30 minutes, or until cake is done.
When cold, trim edges, cut in half crosswise, and put together as a
two-layer cake, matching edges carefully. Spread tops and sides with
Martha Washington’s Fudge Frosting (See recipe). Or add
chopped nut meats to part of frosting and use as
filling.