Catholic Recipe: Confessors’ Light Chocolate Cake
INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup (6 oz.) semi-sweet chocolate morsels
- 1/2 cup margarine or butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 whole egg
- 2 cups cake flour
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 cup milk
- 2-8" greased cake pans
- Frosting
- flour
- sugar
- egg yolks
- whole eggs
baking powder - baking soda
- salt
- milk
- butter or margarine
Details
Prep Time: N/A
Difficulty: ★★☆☆
Cost: ★★★☆
For Ages: 11+
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Light chocolate cake is an American favorite. This cake uses semi-sweet chocolate morsels, the kind used in chocolate chip cookies. Semi-sweet chocolate bits make an attractive beading around the edge of a white frosting.
DIRECTIONS
Melt chocolate morsels over hot (not boiling) water. Cream margarine or butter; add sugar gradually, creaming thoroughly. Add egg yolks and whole egg, one at a time, beating well. Sift together cake flour, baking soda, salt, and baking powder. Sift again. Add alternately to the creamed mixture with milk. Stir in melted chocolate. Turn into 2 eight-inch greased pans, two inches deep. Bake in a moderate oven, 350°, for 35 minutes. Cool. Frost with Seven-minute frosting or with boiled frosting. Garnish with additional semi-sweet chocolate morsels.
Chocolate "Cake-Mate" may be used to add the name of a child's patron to the cake.
Recipe Source: My Nameday — Come for Dessert by Helen McLoughlin, The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN, 1962Wed30 AprilToday is the Optional Memorial of St. Pius V (1504-1572). He joined the Dominicans at the age of fourteen; he was sixty-two when he was elected Pope. His reign, though short, was one of the most fruitful of the sixteenth century. To Protestantism, which had proclaimed the Reformation, St. Pius replied by…
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