Chocolate Cake

Name: Chocolate Cake
Cuisine: Tennessee
Ingredients: 2 cups flour; 1 cup corn starch; 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder; 1 cup butter; 2 cups sugar; 1 cup sweet cream; 7 egg whites; vanilla; 3 cups sugar; 1 cup water; 0.5 cake chocolate; 3 egg whites; vanilla or bitter almond

Origin: Clarksville, Tennessee

Source: Martha McCulloch-Williams, 1913

Ingredients

2 cups flour
1 cup corn starch
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
1 cup sweet cream
7 egg whites
vanilla
3 cups sugar
1 cup water
0.5 cake chocolate
3 egg whites
vanilla or bitter almond

Instructions

Sift together flour, corn starch, and baking powder. Cream butter light with sugar, then add the dry mixture alternately with sweet cream. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites and flavor with vanilla. Bake in layers.
For the filling, boil sugar, water, and grated chocolate together until you reach a thick syrup. Pour this hot syrup over three egg whites beaten very stiff. Flavor with vanilla or bitter almond and spread between the cake layers.