Chocolate Chip Cake

​What do you feed 60 wrestlers who have been depriving themselves of sweets and fatty foods for months, when the season is finally over?  Cake ... and lots of it.  I made this cake for the end of season wrestling banquet last month.   Fondant stars with names of all of the middle and high school wrestlers, managers and coaches covered the sides and back of the entire three tiers of cake.  It's hard to see from the picture but the cake was over three feet tall and the base was 14 inches in diameter.  I never imagined that they would eat the whole thing.

Chocolate Chip Cake
2 cups flour               
1 Tablespoon baking powder       
½ teaspoon salt           
¾ cup butter                   
2 teaspoons vanilla               
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 ½ cups sugar
1 cup milk
5 egg whites
1 cup mini chocolate chips

​Combine dry ingredients.

​Beat butter 2 minutes.

​Add sugar gradually.

​Beat in extracts.

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Beat egg whites until stiff.  Fold into batter.

​Add 1/3 of flour, ½ of milk and repeat.

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​Stir in 2 cup of mini chocolate chips.

​Pour into prepared pans.   

​Bake 30 minutes at 350.  

​Cool on wire racks.

This particular chocolate chip cake was the middle layer of a three tiered celebration cake for the wrestling banquet.

​Much to my surprise, the wrestlers and their families ate every single piece of this giant cake.  They certainly deserved it after such a great season.  

Ciao!

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