Perfect Chocolate Cake
Source of Recipe
Karli (Holub) Harshman, daughter in love
List of Ingredients
- Cake:
- 1 cup cocoa
- 2 cups boiling H2O
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 1/2 cup sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 3/4 cup flour (cake flour is the best)
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Filling:
- 1 cup whipping cream (heavy works best)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 cup sifted powdered sugar
- Frosting:
- 1 ( 6 - 8 oz ) pkg semi sweet chocolate morsels
- Milk chocolate is good also makes it really sweet
- 1/2 cup half and half
- 3/4 cup butter
- 2 1/2 cup sifted powdered sugar
Instructions
- preheat oven to 350 degrees
grease and flour 3 9" pound cake pans
- combine cocoa and boiling water, stir until smooth, then set aside
- cream butter, gradually add sugar, beating well mdm speed of an electric mixer
- add eggs 1 @ a time, beating well after each addition
- combine flour, soda, baking powder, and salt, add to creamed mixture alternating with cocoa mixture. beating @ low speed of electirc mixer, beginning and ending with the flour mixture stir in vanilla. Do not overbeat
- pour pans and bake 20 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean
- Cool pans 10 minutes remove the cake from pans; cool com;etely
- Filling: beat whipping cream and vanilla until foamy. gradually add powdered sugar, beating until soft peaks form chill. (yield 2 cups)
spread filling between layers
- Frosting: combine chocolate, half and half, and butter in a heavy saucepan, cook over mdm heat, stirring until chocolate melts.
- remove from heat add powdered sugar, heat, stirring until chocolate milets. Remove from heat, add powdered sugar, mixing well. Set sauce pan in ice and beat @ low speed of an electric mixer until frosting holds its shape and loses its gloss
- Add a few more drops of half and half if needed to make spreading consistency. (yield 2 1/2 cups)
- Spread frosting on top and sides chill until serving time.
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