Devil’s Food Cake I

½ cup butter

2 cups sugar

Yolks 4 eggs

1 cup milk

2⅓ cups flour

4 teaspoons baking powder

Whites 4 eggs

2 squares chocolate

½ teaspoon vanilla

Cream the butter, and add gradually one-half the sugar. Beat yolks of eggs until thick and lemon-colored, and add gradually remaining sugar. Combine mixtures, and add alternately milk and flour mixed and sifted with baking powder; then add whites of eggs beaten stiff, chocolate melted, and vanilla. Bake forty-five to fifty minutes in an angel cake pan. Cover with White Mountain Cream (see p. [528]).