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Chocolate Cake with Hickory Nuts




Source of Recipe


Becky Horton


Recipe Introduction


Unless you can talk Uncle Eino into picking the Hickory nuts in his woods, you are going to have a problem with this recipe. All I can say is maybe a specialty store may carry them or you are going to have to use a nut that will resemble hickory nuts and I think pecans will fill in nicely. Walnuts are too oily.


List of Ingredients




1 box rich chocolate cake mix
1/2 C of chopped Hickory nuts or pecans.

make the cake mix according to the recipe, just adding the nuts. Bake in layer cake pans.

Frosting:
Grandma only used duncan Hines cake mix, and in her "hay day" of making cakes, she had all the butter and eggs she wanted from Violet, the purple eyed cow and the three or four hundred chickens Grandpa kept on the farm as pets and members of the "Keckmety Dude Ranch". She used butter, cream, cocoa and powdered sugar to make her icing, but by now even Grandma would have switched over to the ready made icing. I will say just buy the very best and richest icing you can for this recipe but add 1/2 C of chopped nuts to it. Now, to put this cake together on a very pretty platter. Over the first layer, spread at least 4 ounces or more of homemade strawberry jelly or jam, if you need to buy the jelly, Grandpa would want you to buy him Smuckers jelly. "Smuckers are good Ohio people too" he'd say. Now, place the top layer on the cake, securing it with toothpicks, (Grandma always did this as the jelly made the cake so high that it would slide off the other layers), and proceed to ice the cake with the frosting and nut mix. Now place half of the nuts all over the cake. Let the cake rest a few hours.

Now a note to you little ones: as you can imagine, if you would unkowingly swollow one, it would be a problem, well Grandpa always no matter what, got a toothpick in his piece of cake and always accused Grandma of trying to kill him! ha! But in his case, if there was a loose hair or dead fly, it would undoubtedly end up on his plate really!

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