Recipe: Mocha Spice Cake with Coffee 7-Minute Frosting (Maxwell House recipe, 1951)

MOCHA SPICE CAKE


2 cups sifted Swans Down Cake Flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 to 2 teaspoons Instant Maxwell House Coffee
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup shortening*
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs, unbeaten
Buttermilk or sour milk (see below for amount*)
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla
bright-colored candy sprinkles (optional, for garnish)

Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, Instant Maxwell House, baking soda, salt, cocoa powder, and cinnamon, and sift together three times. Set aside.

Cream shortening. Add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each. Set aside.

Combine buttermilk, water, and vanilla; add to egg mixture alternately with flour mixture, beating after each addition until smooth. Turn into two (9-inch layer pans, 1 1/2 inches deep), which have been lined on bottoms with wax or parchment paper and greased.

Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees F) for 35 minutes or until done. Cool.

Spread Coffee 7-Minute Frosting between the layers of the cooled cake and on top and sides of cake. Sprinkle bright-colored candy sprinkles generously on top garnish.

*If using butter, margarine, or lard, use 1 cup minus 2 tablespoons buttermilk. With vegetable or other shortening, use 1 cup buttermilk.

COFFEE 7-MINUTE FROSTING

2 egg whites, unbeaten
1 1/2 cups sugar
Dash of salt
1/3 cup water
2 teaspoons light corn syrup
2 teaspoons Instant Maxwell House Coffee
1 teaspoon vanilla

Combine egg whites, sugar, salt, water, corn syrup, and Instant Maxwell House in top of a double boiler. Beat with rotary egg beater or electric beater about 2 minute, or until thoroughly mixed. Cook over rapidly boiling water, beating constantly with rotary egg beater (or at high speed of electric beater) 7 minutes, or until frosting will stand up in stiff peaks. (Stir frosting up from bottom and sides of pan occasionally with rubber scraper, spatula, or spoon.)

Remove from boiling water. Add vanilla; beat 1 minute, or until thick enough to spread.

Makes one (9-inch, 2-layer) cake
From: Recipelink.com
Source: Vintage recipe booklet: 19 Wonderful Coffee Recipes, General Foods Corp., 1951