Recipe - Chocolate Cake Florence

2 cup Sifted cake flour
2 teaspoon Baking powder
1 ds Salt
One half cup Butter
1 One half cup + One half cup sugar
4 Eggs, separated
4 ounce Unsweetened chocolate,
melted
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 1/3 cup Milk
One fourth cup Tia Maria
Chopped Nuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Butter and flour 2 9" pans.

Sift flour with baking powder and salt. Cream butter; add 1 One half cup of the
sugar gradually and blend until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks. Add
chocolate and vanilla. Add flour alternately with milk, mixing well after
each adition. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry; add One half cup sugar and
fold into batter. Turn into pans and bake 35 minutes. Cool.

Pour 2 Tbsp Tia Maria over each layer and frost with Florence icing. Dust
sides with chopped nuts.

Florence Icing

4 Tbsp butter 2 cup sugar One half cup milk 2 ounce bitter chocolate Melt butter in a
saucepan; add sugar and milk. Bring to a boil stirring constantly then cook
over low heat 10 minutes or until temperature reaches 236 degrees. or 115
c. Melt chocolate; add Tia Maria. Stir into butter mixture. Remove from
heat and beat icing until thick enough to spread.

If icing hardens before cake is frosted, soften with a little hot water.

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