Chocolate Flecked White Cake
Submitted by donperley on January 30, 2012 at 1:57 pm

DESCRIPTION
Traditional birthday cake of my youth

SUMMARY
Yield 1 layer cake Source Mom File under chocolate fleck cake, layer cake

INGREDIENTS
2 3/4 cup cake flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1.5 Cup sugar
12.5 Tablespoons butter
3/4 C milk
1 tsp vanilla (optionally substitute a bit of almond extract)
1 1/2 ounces of grated unsweetened chocolate
6 egg whites

INSTRUCTIONS
butter and flour 2 9 inch cake pans
Sift before measuring flour
Sift twice more with baking powder and salt
Mix butter
Mix in sugar
add flour by thirds with milk
Fold in beaten egg whites and grated chocolate
Bake 25 minutes at 375 degrees.

When cool, assemble layers with chocolate icing http://community.kingarthurflour.com/content/chocolate-icing

chocolate icing
Submitted by donperley on January 30, 2012 at 2:03 pm

DESCRIPTION
Pair this with chocolate fleck cake

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SUMMARY
Yield 1 cake Source Mom File under chocolate icing
INGREDIENTS
3 oz unsweetened chocolate
2 TB butter

2 3/4 Cup sifted confectioners sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
6 TB light cream

1 more tsp vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS
Melt chocolate and butter in double boiler

Mix sugar, salt, vanilla and cream
Mix into chocolate and keep on heat for 10 minutes
Add 1 tsp vanilla

If too stiff, add 1 tb more of cream