Three Chocolate Cakes

• Chocolate Cake
• Brown Sugar Icing
• Devil's Cake
• Red Devil's Food Cake for Valentine's Day

Chocolate Cake

Grace says, "I don't think that's my writing. Maybe my mother [Gramma Moore] or Aunt Margaret." From the state of the paper, this was a much used recipe.

1/3 cup butter, creamed 1 3/4 cups sugar 2 eggs, beaten 2 squares chocolate melted 2 cups cake flour 1 cup milk, mixed with 1 teaspoon soda 1/3 cup water Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes. Use a 9-inch pan. [Brown Sugar] Icing 1 egg white 3/4 cup brown sugar 2 1/2 tablespoons water Beat over hot water about 5 minutes.

Devil's Cake

Isabella

• 1 cup cocoa or 2 squares chocolate
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg plus 1 egg yolk (save the extra egg white for the icing)
• butter, size of egg [2 or 3 tablespoons]
• 1 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon soda

Boil chocolate and water until thick. Add sugar and butter and put the pot in a pan of water to cool. Add eggs, flour and soda. Bake in fairly hot [about 400°F] oven one half hour.

Averil's sister Isabella finished her Devil's Cake with Black and White Icing. Ice the cake with White Icing (or make the icing above with white sugar), then melt two squares of dark chocolate and drizzle it over the top.

Red Devil's Food Cake

This is from a mimeographed flyer, we think from 4-H. The directions will make a heart-shaped red velvet cake for Valentine's Day. Use white or butter cream frosting tinted pink, or for use a chocolate icing. There are a number of choices in Averil's section.

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs, separated
• 2 1/2 cups sifted cake flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1 1/2 teaspoon soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups cold water
• 2 tablespoons red food coloring

Cream shortening and 1 cup of the sugar till light. Add vanilla, and egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Sift together dry ingredients. Add to creamed mixture alternately with cold water, beating after each addition.

Beat egg whites till soft peaks form, gradually add 1/4 cup sugar, beating till stiff peaks form. Fold into batter, blend well.

Bake in greased pans (1 square, 1 round) at 350°F for 35 to 40 minutes.

Cut the round cake in half. Position the halves on two adjacent sides of the square cake to make a heart shape.