Devil's food cake cockaigne

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       Title: Devil's Food Cake Cockaigne
  Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
       Yield: 12 servings
  
       4 oz Unsweetened chocolate
     1/2 c  Milk
       1 c  Light sugar; firmly packed
       2 c  Cake flour
       1 ts Baking soda
       1    Egg yolk
     1/2 ts Salt
     1/2 c  Butter
       1 c  Sifted sugar
       2    Egg yolk
     1/4 c  Water
     1/2 c  Milk
       1 ts Vanilla
       2    Egg whites
  
   Recipe by: The Joy of Cooking, 1995
   Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
   Prepare the following custard:  Cook and stir in a double
   boiler over-not in- boiling water the unsweetened
   chocolate, milk, brown sugar, and 1 egg yolk.  Remove from
   heat when thickened, Have other ingredients at about 70
   degrees F.  Sift before measuring 2 cups of cake flour.
   Resift with baking soda and salt.  Beat the butter until
   soft then beat in the egg yolks on at a time.  Add the
   flour to the mixture in 3 parts alternating with a mixture
   of the water, ilk and vanilla.  Stir the batter until
   smooth after each edition.  Stir in the chocolate custard.
   Whip the egg whites until stiff but not dry. Fold lightly
   into cake batter.  Bake in greased pans for about 25
   minutes.  Spread, when cool with caramel icing.
  
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