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Chocolate Cake II


Prep
Cook
Serves
4

Directions

  1. Cream the butter; add sugar gradually, milk, and flour mixed and sifted with soda and cream of tartar.

  2. Beat whites of eggs, and add to first mixture; then add chocolate, and beat thoroughly.

  3. Bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven.

  4. Chocolate Marshmallow Cake Follow recipe for Chocolate Cake II.

  5. As soon as cake is removed from pan, cover bottom with marshmallows pulled apart with tips of fingers, but not quite separated into halves.

  6. The exposed soft surface will quickly adhere to hot cake.

Notes from the cook

From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896) by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Public domain. Digitized by Project Gutenberg (eBook #65061).

Added by Craig Zeldin · May 12, 2026