Perfect chocolate cake with perfect chocolate frosting
20 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup | Cocoa |
| 2 | cups | Boiling water |
| 1 | cup | Margarine |
| 2½ | cup | Sugar |
| 4 | Eggs | |
| 2¾ | cup | Flour |
| 2 | teaspoons | Baking soda |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1½ | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| 1 | cup | Whipping cream |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla extract |
| ¼ | cup | Powdered sugar |
| 6 | ounces | Semisweet chocolate |
| ½ | cup | Half and half |
| ¾ | cup | Butter |
| 2½ | cup | Powdered sugar |
Directions
WHIPPPED CREAM FILLING
PERFECT CHOCOLATE FROSTING
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 2½ cups
Recipe By : Southern Living Five Star Recipe Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #293 Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 22:10:16 -0800 From: scahill@... (Edward Cahill)