DEVIL'S FOOD CAKE
- ¼ cup shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 2½ ounces chocolate
- ½ cup mashed potatoes
- 1 egg
- ⅜ cup milk
- 1¼ cups flour
- 2 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
- ½ cup chopped nuts
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream shortening; add sugar, melted chocolate and mashed potatoes; mix well; add yolk of egg, milk, and flour and baking powder which have been sifted together; beat well; add nuts, vanilla and beaten white of egg; mix thoroughly. Bake in greased shallow pan in moderate oven 25 to 35 minutes. Cover with
MARSHMALLOW ICING
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup water
- 6 or 8 marshmallows
- White of 1 egg
- Few drops vanilla extract
Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread; melt marshmallows in syrup; pour slowly over beaten white of egg; add flavoring and spread very thickly over cake. Melt 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate with one half teaspoon butter and spread thin coating over icing when cool.