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Perfect Chocolate Cake with Perfect Chocolate Frosting

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Category: Cakes

 Ingredients List

  • 1 c Cocoa
  • 2 c Boiling water
  • 1 c Margarine
  • 2 1/2 c Sugar
  • 4 Eggs
  • 2 3/4 c Flour
  • 2 ts Baking soda
  • 1/2 ts Salt
  • 1 1/2 ts Vanilla

 Directions

WHIPPPED CREAM FILLING
1 c Whipping cream
1 ts Vanilla extract
1/4 c Powdered sugar

PERFECT CHOCOLATE FROSTING
6 oz Semisweet chocolate
1/2 c Half and half
3/4 c Butter
2 1/2 c Powdered sugar

Perfect Chocolate Cake: Combine cocoa and boiling water, stirring until
smooth; set aside. Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add
eggs, one at a time. Combine flour, soda, baking powder, and salt in bowl;
add to mixture alternately with cocoa mixture. Stir in vanilla.

Use two 10" pans. Bake 350 degrees for 30 - 40 minutes

WHIPPPED CREAM FILLING: Beat whipping cream and vanilla until foamy;
gradually add powdered sugar. Makes 1 cup.

PERFECT CHOCOLATE FROSTING: Combine first three ingredients in saucepan;
cook until chocolate melts. Remove from heat; add powdered sugar. Set pan
is ice, and beat until frosting holds it shape and loses it gloss. Add a
few more drops of half/half if needed to make spreading consistency. Makes
2 1/2 cups

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