Recipe - Chocolate Custard Cake

CUSTARD
3 Squares Unsweetened
Chocolate
One half cup Milk
1 Egg; Well Beaten
2/3 cup Sugar

BATTER
One half cup Butter
1 cup Sugar
2 Egg Yolks; Well Beaten
2 cup Cake Flour; Sifted
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 cup Milk

Cook chocolate, milk, egg and sugar to custard stage. Cool completely. Beat
butter, sugar and egg yolks until fluffy. Add alternately dry ingredients
with liquid. Blend in cooled chocolate custard.

Bake 350 degrees in 8 inch pans. 2530 minutes. Do not overbake.

NOTES : When I was a student nurse, a volunteer RN brought this cake in
weekly. She frosted it was a chocolate frosting. I This is our family's
favorite. I use a white frosting.
Recipe by: Better Homes & Gardens

Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by "tess@shore.intercom.net"
tess@shore.intercom.net on May 8, 1998