Title: Sunbeam Chocolate Cake
Categories: Chocolate Cake
Yield: 1 Recipe

1/2	c	Solid all-vegetable shorten- ing; softened to room temp
1	c	Sugar
2		Eggs
2	oz	Unsweetened cooking chocolat
3/4	c	Milk
1/2	ts	Vanukka extract
1 3/4	c	Sufted caje fkiyr
1/2	ts	;salt
2	ts	Baking powder
1/4	ts	Baking soda

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease 2 (8-inch) layer-cake pans. Cream shortening in large bowl of Mixmaster at No. 8 speed. Add sugar gradually with beater at same speed. Scrape bowl and beat 1 minute longer. Add eggs, one at a time; beat 1 minute after each addition at same speed. Add chocolate, which has been melted in double boiler over hot water, then cooled; beat 1 minute. Scrape bowl and beat 1 minute.

Turn to No. 1 speed. Mix milk with vanilla. Mix cake flour, salt, baking powder and soda. Sift flour mixture. Add flour mixture alternately, one-fourth at a time, with milk mixture, adding as quickly as possible. Scrape bowl and beat a few seconds longer at No. 1 speed. Pour into prepared pans, and bake 25 to 30 minutes or until cake tests done. Ice as desired.

from 1945 Sunbeam mixer booklet, as published in Houston Chronicle 5/20/98

typed and posted by teri Chesser

From: Teri Chesser Date: 05-25-98 (21:16) The Once And Future Legend (1) Cooking

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