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HEAVENLY HEART CAKE

Source of Recipe


NOT SURE






List of Ingredients



• 3/4 cup Hershey's cocoa
  
• 2/3 cup boiling water
  
• 1 1/2 sticks butter or oleo (soft)
  
• 2 cups sugar
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
  
• 2 eggs
  
• 2 cups cake flour or 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
  
• 3/4 cup buttermilk or sour milk*
  
• Glossy Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting
  
• 1 1/2 cups Hershey's Mini chips
  
• 2 cups powder sugar
  
• 3/4 cup sour cream
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
  
• milk
  






Instructions



1. CAKE...Heat oven to 350 and grease and flour 2 heart- shaped pans or 2 9 inch baking pans.
   
   
2. In small bowl stir together cocoa and boiling water until smooth set aside.
   
   
3. In large bowl, beat butter, sugar and vanilla until fluffy. Beat in eggs and cocoa mixture. Stir together flour, baking soda, and salt
   
   
4. Alternate flour mixture with buttermilk to the butter mixture.
   
   
5. Pour batter into prepared pans.
   
   
6. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire rack. COOL COMPLETELY
   
   
7. FROST WITH GLOSSY CHOCOLATE SOUR CREAM FROSTING. Pipe border around top edge and base of cake with Creamy Buttercream Frosting. Garnish as desired. 10 to 12 servings.
   
   
8. GLOSSY CHOCOLATE SOUR CREAM FROSTING
   
   
9. In meduim microwave-safe bowl place small chips. Micorwave at HIGH i minute stir. If necesssary microwave at HIGH an additional 15 seconds at a time, stirring after each heating. Just until chips are melted when stirred.
   
   
10. Add powdered sugar, sour cream and vanilla beat until smooth . Add milk 1/2 teaspoon at a time. makes about 2 1/2 cups frosting.
    
    
11. CREAMY BUTTERCREAM FROSTING; IN SMALL BOWL, COMBINE 2 CUPS POWDERED SUGAR, 1/4 CUP SOFTENED BUTTER OR MARGARINE, 2 TO 3 TABLESPOON MILK AND 1/2 TEASPOON VANILLA BEAT UNTIL SMOOTH AND CREAMY. ABOUT 1 CUP FROSTING.
    
    
12. PREP TIME; 45 MINUTESSTART TO FINISH; 2 HOURS AND 5 MINUTES
    
    






Final Comments


* TO SOUR MILK USE 2 TEASPOON WHITE VINEGAR PLUS MILK TO EQUAL 3/4 CUP