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Pinwheel Cake

pinwheel cake
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pinwheel cake

 

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pinwheel cake

Pinwheel Cake

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No frosting! Easy to make with Baker’s Chocolate and Carnation Milk!
CourseDessert
CuisineAmerican

Ingredients
  

  • For cake 4 squares Baker’s Unsweetened Chocolate
  • 1 3/4 cups sifted Swans Down Cake Flour
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons Calumet Baking Powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon soda
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 1 1/4 cups Carnation Evaporated Milk undiluted
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 square Baker’s Unsweetened Chocolate melted and cooled
  • 1/3 cup Carnation Evaporated Milk undiluted
  • 2/3 cup vegetable shortening
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon water

Directions
 

  1. Melt 2 squares chocolate. Sift dry ingredients. Stir shortening to soften. Add sifted ingredients, 1 cup milk, vanilla. Blend. Beat 2 minutes at lower mixer speed or 300 strokes by hand. Add eggs, remaining milk, melted chocolate. Beat 1 minute. Pour into two 9-layer pans lined on bottoms with paper. For topping and filling, see below…

 

 

 

Three panels demonstrating how to pour chocolate onto cake batter, swirl it with a spatula, and split the baked cake layer.


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