One-half cup of brown sugar, ½ cup of sweet milk and ½ cup of grated, unsweetened chocolate. Boil all together until thick as cream; allow it to cool.
Mix ½ cup of butter with ½ cup of brown sugar. Add two beaten eggs, ⅔ of a cup of sweet milk and vanilla flavoring to taste. Beat this into the boiled mixture and add 2 cups of flour sifted with 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Bake in three layers and put together with chocolate icing, or cocoa filling.
COCOA FILLING.
- 1½ cups pulverized sugar.
- 1 tablespoonful butter, melted.
- 2½ tablespoonfuls cocoa.
Place all the ingredients in a bowl and mix to a smooth paste with cold coffee. Flavor with vanilla and spread on cake. This cocoa filling should not be boiled.
A CHEAP ORANGE CAKE
- 2 eggs.
- 1½ cupfuls sugar.
- 1 large tablespoonful butter.
- 1 cup milk.
- 2 cups flour sifted with 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder.
- Juice and grated yellow rind of half an orange.
Bake in moderate oven in loaf or layers. If a loaf cake, ice top and sides with the following icing: