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eggless chocolate cake

EGGLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Author Swans Down

Ingredients

  • 2 squares Baker’s Unsweetened Chocolate
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 3/4 cups sifted Swans Down Cake Flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup shortening
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

  • Combine chocolate and milk in top of double boiler and cook over rapidly boiling water 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Blend with rotary egg beater; cool. Sift flour once, measure, add soda, salt, and sugar and sift together three times. Cream shortening; add flour mixture, vanilla, and chocolate mixture, and stir until all flour is dampened. Then beat vigorously 1 minute. Bake in two greased and lightly floured 8-inch layer pans in moderate oven (375° F.) 20 minutes, or until done.