Victory Chocolate Cake

Name: Victory Chocolate Cake
Total time: P1H
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Fusion
Ingredients: flour, unbleached, all-purpose; cocoa powder; baking soda; salt; vegetable shortening; sugar; corn syrup, light; eggs; vanilla extract; coffee

Submitted by deniser

Lead your tastebuds to victory by indulging into this rich cake!

YIELD

16 servings

PREP

15 min

COOK

45 min

READY

60 min

Ingredients

CUPS UNBLEACHED ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR
sifted

CUP COCOA POWDER

2 ¼

TEASPOONS BAKING SODA

TEASPOONS SALT

CUPS VEGETABLE SHORTENING *

⅓

CUP SUGAR

1 ½

CUP LIGHT CORN SYRUP
dark

LARGE EGGS
separated

1 ½

TEASPOON VANILLA EXTRACT

CUP COFFEE
cooled

Directions

Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; set aside. Cream the shortening and sugar in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy, using an electric mixer at medium speed. Blend in the corn syrup and egg yolks. Beat in vanilla. Add dry ingredients alternately with coffee to creamed mixture, beating well after each addition.

Beat egg whites in another bowl until stiff peaks form. Fold egg whites into cake batter. Pour batter into a greased 13×9×2 inch baking pan. Bake in preheated 350℉ (180℃) oven 45 minutes or until cake tests done. Cool in pan on rack.

NOTE: This cake recipe dates from WWII and as you can see, sugar was very precious and in short supply.