Lowney’s – Plain Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter (approx. 110g)
• 1½ cups sugar (approx. 300g)
• 2 cups flour (approx. 240g)
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 4 ounces Lowney’s Premium Chocolate (112g)
• 5 tablespoons boiling water
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup milk (120ml)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 4 eggs

Method

1. Cream the butter; add the sugar very gradually, yolks of eggs well beaten, flour in which the baking powder and salt have been sifted, milk, and chocolate mixed with water.
2. Beat well; add beaten whites, pour into buttered pans, and bake forty to fifty minutes in a moderate oven.
3. This cake may be baked in small cakes by omitting one fourth cup flour.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard