President Eisenhower's Favorite Cake
Recipe: #33781
November 17, 2019
Categories: Desserts, Cakes, 8 or 9 Inch, North American, Flour, Chocolate more
"A chocolate cake that uses 7 minute frosting"
Original recipe yields 6 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (344 g)
- Calories 978.8
- Total Fat - 53.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 29 g
- Cholesterol - 497.1 mg
- Sodium - 720.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 105.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 5.4 g
- Sugars - 69.2 g
- Protein - 23.3 g
- Calcium - 194.3 mg
- Iron - 4.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven 375 degrees
Step 2
Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt together.
Step 3
Cream shortening
Step 4
Slowly beat in sugar, egg yolks and vanilla extract.
Step 5
Add cocoa mixed in boiling water that has cooled to lukewarm and flour mixture alternately with milk.
Step 6
Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.
Step 7
Pour into 2 greased 8 inch layer cake tins.
Step 8
Bake for 25 minutes at 375 degrees F, or use greased 9-inch square tin, baking for 45 minutes at 350 degrees F.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.
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