Chocolate Fudge Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 18
• 2 cups flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup butter (or margarine)
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs, separated
• 4 unsweetened chocolate squares
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup english walnuts, chopped (pecans, butternuts or black walnuts may be substituted)

Recipe

• 1 sift together: flour, baking powder and salt.
• 2 beat until light and creamy: butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar.
• 3 melt chocolate; allow to cool.
• 4 add butter and cooled (melted) chocolate to the creamed mixture.
• 5 beat well.
• 6 add sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk and vanilla.
• 7 mix well after each addition.
• 8 in a separate bowl: beat egg whites until fluffy.
• 9 gradually add to egg whites, while beating, 1/2 cup sugar.
• 10 fold walnuts into egg mixture.
• 11 fold egg and walnut mixture into chocolate mixture.
• 12 spread in greased 9 x 13 pan.
• 13 bake at 350 deg f for 50 minutes or until toothpick tests clean.
• 14 frost or serve plain.