Recipe for "choc-cake-4"

NAME

     CHOC-CAKE-4 - A no-bake graham cracker chocolate cake.
     This is a delicious, easy-to-make cake that everyone enjoys.
     It  came  from an East Indian friend of mine who said it had
     been in the family.  It seems western so I am  uncertain  of
     its origins.

INGREDIENTS (Makes 1 cake)

     125 g     butter or margarine
     130 g     icing sugar
     2         large eggs
     125 g     cashews or almonds
     25 g      cocoa
     250 g     graham crackers
               milk
     4 ml      vanilla

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Cream together the butter and sugar.
          (2)  Chop the nuts and roast if desired.
          (3)  Soak the crackers in the milk until they are  soft
               but have not turned to mush.
          (4)  Dissolve cocoa in 30 ml milk, and add this and the
               nuts to the creamed butter/sugar mixture.
          (5)  Separate the eggs and set the  whites  aside.   To
               the  creamed mixture add the yolks and vanilla and
               beat.
          (6)  Whip the whites until stiff peaks form, then  fold
               this into the mixture.
          (7)  Line a 22-cm square pan with a layer of  crackers,
               mixture,  and  crackers.   Top  with the remaining
               mixture and set in the refrigerator until hard.

NOTES

     Depending on how you want the texture of the  cake  you  can
     soak  the crackers until they are slightly softened or until
     they fall apart.

RATING

     Difficulty: easy to moderate.  Time: 30 minutes preparation,
     several  hours chilling.  Precision: approximate measurement
     OK.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Rob Robson
     School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, P.Q., Canada
     musocs!mugeneral!rob@eddie.mit.edu
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