Chocolate jimmy cake

This is the quintessential birthday cake from my childhood. There was a certain rite of passage involved, you knew you were something when you reached the point where you wanted and actually requested this for your birthday cake. It’s really quite funny, because it’s a cake that kids have to learn to like. Mostly, they don’t learn this, which is a good now that I’m now older. An acquired taste, rare out here, but it never seems quite like a birthday without it.

Ingredients

• 4 egg whites
• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 2 cup powdered sugar
• 4 egg yolk
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 3/4 cup brewed coffee, cooled
• 2 cup flour
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 cup crushed walnuts
• 1 cup chocolate jimmies, you may call them chocolate sprinkles

Cooking time

About 30 minutes prep time, 1 hour cooking time.

Directions

1. Beat egg whites until stiff and frothy, set aside.
2. In another bowl, mix butter, powder sugar, egg yolk. Add coffee and mix.
3. Add baking powder, salt, flour and mix.
4. Fold in nuts, jimmies.
5. Add egg whites and mix @ low speed.
6. Place in bundt pan, sprayed with vegetable spray and dusted with flour.
7. Bake 1 hr. @ 350 degrees.
8. Frost with white butter cream frosting and sprinkle with jimmies.
9. For birthdays, use maraschino cherries as birthday candle holders.

White butter cream frosting

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb. – 3/4 lb. butter, softened
• splash of vanilla extract
• powder sugar, about 2 cups
• splash of milk

Directions

1. Mix butter, vanilla, powder sugar together.
2. Add milk until desired consistency for spreading.
3. Don’t measure the ingredients for the frosting—the best test is by taste as you make it. If too buttery tasting, add more sugar; if too sugary tasting, add more butter; if too thick, add more milk.

Servings

The birthday person gets the first slice. It’s best to save some for a day or two, as it gets even better with time as it dries even more.

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