Name: Chocolate Layer Cake
Ingredients: yellow layer cake; 2 squares plain chocolate; white or chocolate frosting

Chocolate Layer Cake

Ingredients

yellow layer cake
2 squares plain chocolate
white or chocolate frosting

Directions

Melt 2 squares of plain chocolate over steam.
Add the melted chocolate to the yellow layer cake just before pouring into the tins.
Once baked, layer the cakes together with white or chocolate frosting.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.