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Grandmother Grout's Cake

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, medium difficulty, recipes for cake, recipes for dessert, recipes using baking powder, recipes using butter, recipes using dark chocolate, recipes using egg, recipes using granulated sugar, recipes with metric units, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AGrandmother_Grout%27s_Cake)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AGrandmother%20Grout%27s%20Cake&oldid=4522746

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 pinch salt
  • ¾ cup milk
  • 1 egg

Frosting

  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • 3 oz bittersweet chocolate, melted
  • ¾ cup milk

Directions

Cake

  1. Cream together the butter, sugar, baking powder, salt, and flour
  2. Add the milk.
  3. Beat the egg and fold in.
  4. Divide batter between 2 greased and parchment-lined 8-inch (20 cm) round cake pans.
  5. Bake about 20–25 minutes at about 350°F (175°C).
  6. Cool completely before frosting.

Frosting

  1. Combine all frosting ingredients in a saucepan.
  2. Heat over medium heat, stirring to dissolve everything.
  3. Cook to the soft ball stage.
  4. Cool slightly, and spread at once over the cake.