Refrigerator Cake

Margie | May 6, 2020, 8:29 p.m.

Phil’s favorite birthday cake.

Ingredients

Cake ingredients:

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

3 eggs, beaten

1 cup sugar

5 Tbl cold water

1 tsp vanilla

Frosting:

3/4 cup butter

1 cup confectioners sugar

3 eggs, separated

4 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted

1 tsp vanilla

 

Directions

Preheat oven to 375. Prepare 2 9" loaf pans - butter pans, line bottom with parchment and butter again.

Mix dry ingredients and set aside. Beat eggs, sugar, water, vanilla. Add flour all at once and mix well. Pour into prepared pans and bake at 375 for 20 minutes. Cool. Split each cake in half.

Separate eggs. Beat egg whites until stiff. Beat yolks with sugar, chocolate and vanilla. Mix whipped egg whites into chocolate mixture.

Frost cake and refrigerate.