Aunt laura's chocolate cake
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Squares chocolate | |
| ¾ | cup | Boiling water or coffee; or combination |
| 3 | Eggs; well beaten | |
| 2¼ | cup | Sugar |
| ¾ | cup | Butter |
| 1 | pinch | Salt |
| 1½ | teaspoon | Vanilla (up to) |
| 1¾ | cup | Buttermilk |
| 1½ | teaspoon | Soda |
| 2¼ | cup | Sifted flour |
| 1 | Square chocolate; melted | |
Directions
Melt 3 squares chocolate in water. Cool. Combine eggs, sugar, salt and butter. Add chocolate mixture, vanilla, buttermilk and soda. Add flour.
Pour into three 8- or 9-inch pans. Bake at 375 about 30 minutes. Cool and ice with Colonnade Icing (see Index). Dribble 1 square chocolate over top and sides.
MRS JOE WEISBERGER (NINA)
MARVELL, AR
From the book <High Cotton Cookin'>, Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell, AR 72366, ISBN 0-918544-14-9, downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .