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Title: Egyptian Chocolate Cake
Yield: 12 Servings

Ingredients

  1 3/4 c  flour; unbleached, sifted
      1 ts cinnamon; ground
      4 oz semisweet chocolate
    1/2 c  butter or regular margarine
      2    eggs; large
    1/2 c  milk
      2 ts baking powder
    1/8 ts cloves; ground
    1/2 c  ; brewed strong
           -- coffee
      1 c  sugar
      1 ts vanilla extract
           ***CINNAMON WHIPPED CREAM***
      2 c  heavy whipping cream
      2 ts vanilla extract
    1/4 c  sugar
    1/2 ts cinnamon; ground

Instructions

Sift the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and cloves together; set aside.
Combine chocolate and coffee in small saucepan. Cook over low heat
until the chocolate is melted, stirring constantly. Remove from heat
and cool to room temperature. Cream the butter and sugar together in a
mixing bowl, until they are light and fluffy. Use an electric mixer set
on medium speed. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each
addition. Beat in vanilla and chocolate mixture. Add dry ingredients
alternately with milk to the creamed mixture, beating well after each
addition. Pour batter into 2 greased and waxed paper-lined 8-inch cake
pans. Bake in a preheated 350 degree F. oven for 30 minutes or until
cake tests done. Cool in pans on racks for 10 minutes. Remove from
pans; cool completely on racks. To assemble the cake, place one cake
layer on serving plate. Spread with Cinnamon Whipped Cream. Top with
second cake layer. Frost sides and top with remaining Cinnamon Whipped
Cream. Refrigerate until serving time.

CINNAMON WHIPPED CREAM: Chill large mixing bowl and beaters. Combine
cream, sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon and beat with an electric mixer set
at high speed until soft peaks form and mixture is thick enough to
spread. DO NOT overbeat or you will have butter instead of whipped
cream.

NOTE: The original recipe came from a GI who found it in Egypt when he
was stationed there. Hence the name. The whipped cream frosting was
added later but really adds to the recipe.

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