Recipe - Butter Cream Banded Fudge Cake

PATTI VDRJ67A

BUTTER CREAM
8 ounce Cream cheese; softened
1 Egg
One fourth cup Sugar
3 tablespoon Milk
2 tablespoon Butter; softened
1 tablespoon Cornstarch
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

CAKE
4 ounce Unsweetened chocolate squar
One half cup Butter; softened
2 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
2 cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Baking soda
1 1/3 cup Milk
1 One half teaspoon Vanilla extract

FROSTING
2 ounce Unsweetened chocolate squar
One fourth cup Butter
3 Three fourths cup Powdered sugar; sifted
One half cup Milk
1 One half teaspoon Vanilla extract

Butter cream: Combine cream cheese, egg, and sugar in
a medium mixing bowl; beat on HI until smooth.
Gradually add 2 tbsp of milk, the butter, constarch,
and vanilla extract. Add another tbsp. of milk in
needed to give smooth consistency. Set aside.
Cake: Melt chocolate in top of double boiler and let
cool. Cream butter and gradually add 2 cups of sugar,
beating all the while. Add eggs, one at a time,
beating after each addxition. Combine flour, baking
powder, soda, and salt. Add to creamed mixture,
alternating with the milk, beginning and ending with
flour mixture. Mix each addition in well. Stir in
melted chocolate and vanilla. Spread half of the
chocolate batter into a greased and floured 13x9" pan.
Spoon reserved butter cream mixture over the chocolate
batter. Top with remaining chocolate batter. Bake at
350~ until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes
out clean. Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
Frosting: Combine chocolate and butter in top of a
double boiler. Bring water to a boil, reduce heat to
low and cook and stir until chocolate and butter has
melted. Remove from heat. Let cool. Add confectioner's
sugar and half of the milk, beating at medium speed.
Add the vanilla and additional milk as needed to bring
to spreading consistency. Spread on cooled cake.

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