COCOA CAKE RECIPE

COCOA CAKE RECIPE

COCOA CAKE ½ a cup of butter, ¾ a cup of milk, 1 cup of sugar, 6 level tablespoonfuls of Baker's Cocoa, 3 eggs, 2 level teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla, 1 ½ or 2 cups of sifted pastry flour. Cream the butter, stir in the sugar gradually, add the unbeaten eggs, and beat all together until very creamy. Sift together one-half cup of the flour, the cocoa and baking powder; use this flour first, then alternate the milk and remaining flour, using enough to make mixture stiff enough to drop from the spoon; add vanilla and beat until very smooth; then bake in loaf in moderately hot oven thirty-five or forty minutes. Tests for baking cake. It is baked enough when: 1. It shrinks from the pan. 2. Touching it on the top, springs back. 3. No singing sound.