Devil’s Food Cake with Seven Minute Frosting

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The following is chosen because as a child I always had a homemade Devil’s Food Cake with Seven Minute Maple Frosting as a birthday cake. My mother had the art of creating the perfect Seven Minute Frosting down to a science. This is from the kitchen of Mrs. Earl Warren, wife of the Chief Justice. This is a cake with both a filling and a frosting.

subheading: Mrs. Earl Warren’s Devil’s Food Cake:

¼ pound of butter (one stick)

2 cups of sifted cake flour

1 cup granulated sugar

1 tsp. baking soda

1 cup brown sugar

pinch of salt

1 cup buttermilk

1 tsp. vanilla

6 egg yolks, well beaten with 3 tbsp. of cold water

3 squares of Baker’s Bitter Chocolate, melted

subheading: Seven Minute Frosting:

2 egg white

1½ cup granulated sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

1½ cup Karo light syrup

5 Tbsp. cold water

subheading: Chocolate Frosting:

1 pound of confectioner’s sugar

½ cup cocoa

1 tsp. vanilla

⅓ cup strong coffee

2 Tbsp. of melted butter.

Note: Ingredients may have been altered from the original.

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