ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR CAKE Every family has it's "urban myths". This cake is one of mine. Apparently one of my family members (about 80 years ago) had dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in NY. Dessert was a wonderful chocolate cake. My great aunt asked for the recipe and it was sent to her with a bill for $100.00. I have checked her recipe with Waldorf Astoria chocolate cake recipes and have concluded that either they have since changed their recipe or she tweaked the recipe herself...she was a chocolholic!
Side note from a reader: Its funny how there are so many versions of this cake recipe and the claims that it came from ones family relative. The $ 100 cake recipe has been passed down in my family from my great great grandmother her paper the recipe is written on is dated 1897, and has written on it she received it from her great aunt. Author: dymnyno <http://localhost:5918/getImage?rid=610344&entity=4> *INGREDIENTS FOR CAKE:* 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup butter 3 oz bittersweet chocolate, melted 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 1/2 cups walnuts 2 eggs 1 1/2 cups milk *INGREDIENTS FOR FROSTING:* 2/3 cup melted butter 2 cups powdered sugar 4 tbs. powdered chocolate 4 tbs black coffee *DIRECTIONS FOR CAKE:* 1. Cream butter and sugar. 2. Add beaten eggs 3. Add melted chocolate 4. Add all ingrediants alternately with milk. 5. Fold in coarsely chopped nuts. After all ingredients are added and mixed , pour into two cake pans. 6. Bake for 45 min or until a toothpick comes clean. Bake at 350 degrees. *DIRECTIONS FOR FROSTING:* 1. Cook over low heat and cool and then frost. 2. When cakes are cool frost the cake. Put a lot on the first layer, add the second and then frost the second layer , letting the frosting drip over the sides. Source: food52.com <http://food52.com/recipes/1753-one-hundred-dollar-cake> -- *Ginny Butterfield Cranberry Twp, PA * [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAKE-RECIPE/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAKE-RECIPE/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
