How to Make Perfect Chocolate Cake from the Settlement Cookbook-1965

Chocolate Cake from the Settlement Cookbook-1965.

You can have Chocolate Cake from the Settlement Cookbook-1965 using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Cake from the Settlement Cookbook-1965

1. You need 2 cup of cake flour.
2. Prepare 2 cup of sugar.
3. You need 1/8 tsp of salt.
4. Prepare 1/2 cup of butter.
5. It's 1 1/4 cup of water.
6. It's 4 of squares unsweetened chocolate.
7. You need 3 of eggs - well beaten.
8. It's 1 tsp of vanilla.
9. Prepare 2 tsp of baking powder.

Chocolate Cake from the Settlement Cookbook-1965 instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325°F..
2. Grease and floor 2 nine inch Lauer pans, set aside..
3. Sift flour, sugar, and salt together..
4. Add butter and mix with fingertips or pastry blender to the consistency of corn meal..
5. Boil water and chocolate. Cool. Add to butter mixture. Beat very well..
6. Chill thoroughly..
7. Add eggs, vanilla and baking powder..
8. Pour mixture equally into pans and bake for 35-40 minutes, until cake tater or fork comes out clean when inserted in center..