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    Old World Chocolate Cake


    Source of Recipe


    CD Kitchen

    List of Ingredients




    1 1/2 cups of cake flour; sifted
    1 1/4 cups of sugar
    1/3 cup of baking cocoa
    1 tablespoon of instant coffee
    1 1/3 teaspoons of baking soda
    3/4 teaspoons of salt
    2/3 cup of vegetable shortening
    1 cup of buttermilk
    1 teaspoons of vanilla extract
    2 large eggs
    Sweetened whipped cream:
    1 cup of heavy whipping cream
    2 tablespoons of sugar
    1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

    Recipe



    Sift the cake flour, sugar, cocoa, instant coffee, baking
    soda and salt together in a large mixing bowl. Add the
    shortening, 2/3 cup of the buttermilk and vanilla. Beat with
    an electric mixer, set on medium speed, for 2 minutes. Add
    remaining 1/3 cup of buttermilk and eggs. Beat, at medium
    speed, for 2 more minutes. Pour batter into 2 greased 8-inch
    round cake pans. Bake in a 350 degree F preheated oven for
    30 minutes or until cakes test done. Cool in pans on racks for
    10 minutes. Remove from pans; and completely cool. Place one
    cake layer on serving plate. Spread with Sweetened Whipped
    Cream. Top with second cake layer. Frost cake with remaining
    Sweetened Whipped Cream. Refrigerate until serving time.

    Sweetened Whipped Cream:

    Chill mixing bowl and beaters. Place cream, sugar, and
    vanilla in chilled bowl. Beat with electric mixer, at high
    speed, until soft peaks form and mixture is of a spreading
    consistency. DO NOT overbeat.

 

 

 


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