Make a cup-cake with the following ingredients: One cupful of butter,
two cupfuls of sugar, three cupfuls of flour, one cupful of milk, four
eggs beaten separately, one tea-spoonful of soda, two tea-spoonfuls of
cream of tartar, or two tea-spoonfuls of yeast powder.
Cut the cup-cake, when baked, through the middle, or bake it in two or
three parts. Put a layer of the chocolate mixture between and on the top
and sides of the cake.
_Chocolate Mixture._--Five table-spoonfuls of grated chocolate, with
enough cream or milk to wet it, one cupful of sugar, and one egg well
beaten. Stir the ingredients over the fire until thoroughly mixed; then
flavor with vanilla.