Categories: cakes

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1-1/2 cups sugar
• 4 eggs, separated
• 3 cups flour
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3 tbsp cocoa
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 cup hot water

Directions

1. Grease bottom of 10-inch tube pan.

2. Preheat oven to 350F.

3. Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks one at a time and beat well.

4. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt; add alternately with milk to cream mixture. Add vanilla and mix.

5. Beat egg whites until stiff; fold into batter. Remove 1/3 batter and set aside.

6. Mix together cocoa, sugar, baking soda, and hot water to make a chocolate syrup. Add the chocolate syrup to 1/3 of the batter that was set aside, and mix well.

7. Spoon batter into pan, alternating vanilla and chocolate batter.

8. Bake in 350F oven for 1 hour until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

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