Chocolate Maple Cake

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Title: Chocolate Maple Cake
Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
Yield: 16 servings

2 c Cake flour; sifted
1 tb Baking powder
1/4 ts Salt
1/2 ts Baking soda
1/2 c Butter or margarine
1 c Sugar
2 Eggs; separated
3 oz Unsweetened chocolate;
-melted
1 1/4 c Milk
1 ts Vanilla extract
Maple walnut butter
-frosting:
1/2 c Butter or margarine
4 c Powdered sugar; sifted
1/4 ts Salt
6 tb Cream
2 ts Maple flavoring
1 c Walnuts; chopped

Recipe by: Mary M McBride's Encyclopedia of Cooking
Preheat oven to 375 degrees; lightly grease two 9-inch
layer pans. Sift flour once before measuring, then sift 3
times with baking powder, salt and baking soda. Cream
butter until soft and smooth; gradually add sugar, creaming
until light and fluffy. Add beaten egg yolks, then melted
chocolate. Add milk alternately with dry ingredients,
beating until smooth after each addition. Continue beating
for two minutes. Fold in flavoring and stiffly beaten egg
whites. Turn into prepared pans and bake for about 30
minutes.

Turn out onto a wire rack to cool. Split layers in half
horizontally. To prepare frosting, cream butter until
soft; slowly stir in 2 cups sugar and the salt. Add
additional sugar alternately with cream, beating thoroughly
after each addition until creamy and smooth. Stir in
walnuts with the last of the sugar. Beat in maple
flavoring. Additional cream may be added to give frosting
proper spreading consistency. Spread between layers, then
frost top and sides of cake.

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