Chocolate Custard Cake

Use this cake recipe to deliver rich, dark, moist, and light chocolate custard cake your family will love.

• Calories: 294 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ cup butter
• ½ cup milk
• ¾ cup milk
• ⅔ cup packed brown sugar
• ⅔ cup white sugar
• 3 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
• 2 eggs, separated
• 1 ¾ cups cake flour

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

In a saucepan, combine chocolate, 1/2 cup milk, brown sugar, and egg yolks. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until custard is thick and smooth. Cool.

Step 2

Stir together flour, soda, baking powder, and salt.

Step 3

In a large bowl, cream butter or margarine. Blend in white sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Mix together 3/4 cup milk and vanilla. Stir flour mixture into creamed mixture alternately with flavored milk. Make 3 dry and 2 liquid additions, combining lightly after each. Stir in cooled chocolate custard.

Step 4

Beat egg whites to form stiff but moist peaks. Fold into cake batter, and beat by hand for 1 minute. Turn batter into two greased and floured 8 inch round cake pans.

Step 5

Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 25 to 30 minutes, or until cake springs back when lightly touched. Cool layers for 5 minutes, and then remove from pans. Cool completely.