Caramel Cake Recipe

Ingredients for Caramel Cake

• For Cake
• 1¼ cups sifted sugar
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup vegetable shortening
• 1 cup cold water
• 3 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup boiling water
• For Filling
• 1 teaspoon vegetable shortening
• 1 ounce chocolate
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ cup hot water
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• Pinch salt

Instructions

1. For cake.
2. Put granulated sugar into small pan and melt over fire till brown, remove from fire, add boiling water, stir quickly, return to stove, and stir until thick syrup; set aside to cool.
3. Beat vegetable shortening and sugar to a cream, add eggs well beaten, flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla, three tablespoons of the syrup and water.
4. Mix and beat two minutes, then divide into two vegetable shorteninged and floured layer tins and bake in moderate oven twenty minutes.
5. For filling.
6. Melt granulated sugar in small pan and stir until it becomes a light brown syrup, add the water gradually, then brown sugar, vegetable shortening, salt, and chocolate, stirring all the time.
7. Cook until it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240 Degree F.
8. Remove from fire, add vanilla, beat until creamy, then spread between cakes.
9. Sufficient for one layer cake.