Cake: Hershey's Deep Dark Chocolate Cake
Source of Recipe
Hershey's Kitchens
List of Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup Hershey's cocoa or Hershey's Special Dark cocoa
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup boiling water
- One Bowl Buttercream Frosting:
- 6 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
- 2 2/3 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup Hershey's cocoa or Hershey's Dutch Process cocoa
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 9" round pans or one 13x9x2" baking pan.
- Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of an electric mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour into prepared pans.
- Bake 30 to 35 minutes for round pans, 35 to 40 minutes for rectangular pan or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks, cool completely. Frost with One Bowl Buttercream Frosting.
- Yield: 8 to 10 servings
- One Bowl Buttercream Frosting: Beat butter in medium bowl. Add powdered sugar and cocoa alternately with milk, beating to spreading cinsistency (additional milk may be needed). Stir in vanilla.
- Yield: About 2 cups
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