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Chocolate Heaven

Source of Recipe

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List of Ingredients

Cake:
-6 cups cake flour
-5 1/4 cups sugar
-2 1/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa
-2 tablespoons baking soda
-4 1/2 cup milk
-1 1/2 cup butter
-12 large eggs
-1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Butter Cream:
-2/3 cup water
-4 tablespoons meringue powder
-12 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
-1 1/4 cup shortening
-3/4 teaspoon salt
-1 teaspoon clear almond extract
-1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract
-1 teaspoon colorless butter flavor

-semi-sweet chocolate chips
-Hershey's chocolate syrup




Recipe

Cake:
-Heat oven to 350F.
-Grease three 10-inch springform pans.
-In mixing bowl, stir together sifted cake flour, sugar, Hershey's Cocoa and baking soda.
-Add butter and mix well.
-Add milk, eggs and vanilla.
-Mix thoroughly.
-Pour about 5 cups of the cake batter into each prepared pan.
-Bake 40 to 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in cake center comes out clean.
-Cool for 10 minutes before you remove the cake from
the pan.
-Cool completely on a wire rack.

Butter Cream:
-Combine water and meringue powder; whip at high speed
until peaks form.
-Add 4 cups of sugar, one cup at a time, beating
after each addition at low speed.
-Alternately add shortening and remainder of sugar.
-Add salt and flavorings; beat at low speed until smooth.
-Thin out 1/2 of the frosting with a little extra water.
-The thinned frosting is used as the filling between layers.

To Assemble:
-Place one 10 inch cake on a large round plate or a
large round cake platter.
-Spread 1/2 of the thinned frosting on top. (Only frost the top of the cake)
-Sprinkle very lightly with semi-sweet chocolate chips(There are very few chips on this layer, usually only 1 or 2 per wedge, so sprinkle very very lightly)
-Place the second cake on top of the first.
-Frost the top with the remaining thinned frosting.
-Sprinkle with semi-sweet chocolate chips. (You can be a bit more generous with this layer)
-Place the third layer on top of the second.
-Frost the top with all of the Butter Cream that was not thinned.
-This is a thick layer of frosting so pile it on.
-Try to get the top as smooth as you can.
-Sprinkle with semi-sweet chocolate chips.
-Cut the cake into wedges, as you would cut a pizza.
-Using Hershey's chocolate syrup, create a design on your dessert plate.
-Place the wedge of chocolate lasagna at the 11 o'clock position on your dessert plate with the point facing down.
-Serve.