Lowney’s – Chocolate Nut Cakes

Ingredients

• 4 squares Lowney’s Premium Chocolate, grated (112g)
• 1½ cups sugar (approx. 300g)
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup nut meats broken in pieces (approx. 130g)
• 2¼ cups flour (approx. 270g)
• ½ cup milk (120ml)
• 8 egg whites
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• salt
• ¾ cup butter (165g)

Method

1. Cream butter; add sugar, flour in which baking powder has been sifted, and milk, and beat well; add whites of eggs beaten stiff and nut meats; then add chocolate and vanilla.
2. Pour into buttered gem pans and bake in hot oven twenty-five minutes.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard