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Dessert

Chocolate Cakes

A classic 1910 sweet built around eggs, with Farmer’s original method and page citation.

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What you’ll need

Ingredients

  • 3 eggs
  • ¼ cup butter
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 3 squares Baker’s chocolate
  • 1 cup stale bread crumbs
  • 3 tablespoons flour

Make it happen

Directions

  1. 1

    Beat eggs until light. Cream the butter, add sugar, combine mixtures, then add chocolate melted, bread crumbs, 492 and flour. Spread mixture in a shallow buttered pan and bake in a slow oven. Shape with a tiny biscuit-cutter and put together in pairs with White Mountain Cream (see p. 528 ) between and on top.

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