Lowney’s – Simple Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• ½ cup sugar (approx. 100g)
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup Lowney’s Cocoa (approx. 25g)
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• grated rind and juice of ½ lemon
• 1 tablespoon flour
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon clove

Method

1. Mix cocoa, spice, flour, baking powder, and salt; beat the yolks of eggs until lemon-colored and thick; add sugar and beat well; add lemon juice and rind; when well blended, add chocolate mixture and the beaten whites of eggs.
2. Bake in buttered shallow pans twenty minutes in a moderate oven.
3. When cool put together with Chocolate Frosting or Currant Jelly or White Mountain Cream.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard