Germans Sweet Chocolate Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (4 oz.) bar Baker's sweet chocolate
1/2 c. boiling water
1 c. butter
4 egg yolks, unbeaten
2 1/2 c. sifted Swans Down cake flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. buttermilk
2 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
4 egg whites, stiffly beaten

Preparation

Melt chocolate in boiling water.
Cool.
Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
Add egg yolks one at a time, and beat well after each.
Add melted chocolate and vanilla.
Mix well.
Sift together flour, salt and soda.
Add alternately with buttermilk to chocolate mixture; beat well.
Beat until smooth.
Fold in whites.
Pour into 3 deep 8 or 9-inch layer pans, lined on bottoms with paper.
Bake in moderate oven on 350\u00b0 for 30 to 40 minutes.
Cool.
Frost tops only.