Chocolate Chip Orange Cake (1958)

• 2 cups sifted cake flour
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate, chopped finely
• I cup sour milk
• 1/4 grated orange peel
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 tspn vanilla
• 1/4 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1 tspn baking powder
• 1 tspn soda
• 1/4 tspn salt
• Chocolate Wonder Icing (see below)

Cream shortening, sugars, and vanilla. Add eggs and beat well. Stir in chocolate, nuts, and orange peel.

Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with sour milk. Line a 9-inch square pan with oiled wax paper, and pour batter into the prepared pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes.  When cool, frost with Chocolate Wonder Icing.

Chocolate Wonder Icing

Malt 3 squares unsweetened chocolate and 1 cup granulated sugar. Remove from heat, add 1 cup confectioners' sugar and 2 tablespoons hot water. Blend. Add 1 whole beaten egg. Beat in 4 tablespoons butter, 1 tablespoon at a time. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla.  Enough for 1 9-inch cake.  

(Origin - "A Book of California Cookery" by the Oakland Tribune, Martha Lee, Home Economics Editor, 1958.)

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