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www.RecipeFaire.com Presents:
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Chocolate Layer Cake
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by:
Carla Parker
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Chocolate Layer Cake Recipe is made from scratch with unsweetened cocoa powder, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, buttermilk and cake flour which is then topped with chocolate buttercream icing creating a delicious Chocolate Layer Cake.
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INGREDIENTS
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3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
powder
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3/4 cup boiling water
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1/2 cup vegetable shortening
or butter
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2 cups sugar
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2 eggs
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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1/4 teaspoon salt
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1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
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1 cup buttermilk
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2 cups sifted cake flour
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2 cups Chocolate Buttercream Icing (search recipes)
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DIRECTIONS
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1:
Preheat oven to 350° F. Butter and lightly flour two 8- by 2-inch round cake pans; line bottom of each with a circle of waxed paper. Stir cocoa into boiling water until smooth; set aside.
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2:
In large bowl of electric mixer, Cream shortening and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Beat in vanilla and salt.
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3:
Stir baking soda into buttermilk. Add 1/2 cup of the flour to egg mixture; then add 1/3 cup buttermilk mixture. Continue to add flour and
buttermilk alternately, beating well after each addition. Stir in cocoa mixture.
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4:
Divide the batter evenly between the two cake pans. Bake until done (30 to 35 minutes). Cool in pans 5 minutes, then turn out on wire
racks to finish cooling. Ice and decorate with Chocolate Buttercream Icing.
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