Title: Mocha Halo Cakes
Categories: Blank
Yield: 1 Serving

1 1/2	c	Sifted cake flour,
1/2	c	Cocoa
1/2	ts	Baking soda
2	ts	Baking powder
1/4	ts	Salt
1/2	c	Shortening
1	c	Sugar
1		Egg
2		Egg yolks
1/2	c	Cold strong coffee
1/2	c	Buttermilk

Sift flour, cocoa, soda, baking powder and salt together 3 times. Cream shortening with sugar until fluffy. Combine whole egg and egg yolks, beat well and add to creamed mixture. Combine coffee and buttermilk. Add sifted dry ingredients and liquids alternately in small amounts, beating well after each addition. Pour into greased cupcake pans and bake in moderate oven (350F) for 20 minutes.

Makes 18 medium or 12 large cupcakes.

Frost with Fluffy White Icing. Melt 1 ounce (square) chocolate with 1 teaspoon butter and put a band around each cake with teaspoon or pastry brush.

From "250 Classic Cake Recipes", edited by Ruth Berolzheimer, Culinary Arts Institute. Consolidated Book Publishers, 1950.

MOCHA ICING: 1 1/2 c Powdered Sugar 1 tb Coffee 1/8 ts Salt 1 Egg Yolk, Well Beaten 4 ts Cocoa 1/4 c Butter 1 ts Vanilla Flavoring

Sift sugar. Cream butter. Add sugar. Beat until smooth. Add remaining ingredients. Beat until well blended.

From "The Searchlight Recipe Book", compiled by The Household Magazine, Topeka, Kansas. Capper Publications, 1946.

Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; June 24 1993.

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