Simple Chocolate Cake

Directions

  • 3 eggs
  • grated rind and juice of 1/2 lemon
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup cocoa
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • teaspoon clove

Directons

Mix cocoa, spice, flour, baking powder, and salt; beat the yolks of eggs until lemon-colored and thick ; add sugar and beat well; add lemon juice and rind ; when well blended, add chocolate mixture and the beaten whites of eggs. Bake in buttered shallow pans twenty minutes in a moderate oven. When cool put together with chocolate frosting or currant jelly.