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      Title: EISENHOWER'S CHOCOLATE CAKE
 Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Celebrity, Frostings
      Yield: 2 Servings
 
    1/2 c  Butter
      2 c  Sugar
      3 x  Eggs
      1 c  Sour Milk
  2 1/2 c  Sifted Flour
      1 ts Baking Soda
      1 ts Baking Powder; round
    2/3 c  Cocoa; dissolve in
    1/2 c  Boiling water
      1 ts Vanilla
    1/4 ts Salt
           FROSTING
      2    Egg Whites
  1 1/2 c  Sugar; sift fine
      5 tb Cold water
      1 pn Salt
    1/2 ts Cream of Tartar
 
  Sift flour, baking powder & salt. Cream shortening. Slowly beat in sugar.
  Add egg yolds & vanilla. Add cocoa, then flour mixture alternately with
  milk. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour in 2 greased 9" layer cake
  tins. Bake 25 minutes in 375~ oven. FROSTING:Combine 2 egg whites, unbeaten
  with 1 1/2 cups sugar, finely sifted. Add 5 tbsps. cold water, a few rains
  salt and 1/2 tsp. Cream of Tarter in top of double boiler. Stir until sugar
  is dissolved. Place over briskly boiling water. Beat with egg beater until
  stiff enough to stand in peaks, about 6-10 minutes. Add 1 tsp. vanilla and
  beat until thick enough to spread while frosting is cooling. Keep sides of
  double boiler scraped down with spatula.
 
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