Recipe - Colettes Chocolate Cake

2 cup Sugar
1 cup Unsweetened cocoa
1 cup Vegetable shortening
1 teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Baking soda
3 cup Allpurpose flour
2 Eggs, at room temperature
1 cup Milk, at room temperature
1 teaspoon Almond extract
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 cup Hot, strong coffee

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease the sides and bottom of 2 (9inch) cake
pans with shortening and then dust them with flour. In a large mixing bowl,
combine all of the ingredients except the coffee. Mix at low speed until
blended, scaping the sides of the bowl occasionally with a rubber spatula.
Slowly add the coffee while mixing on low. Mix until smooth. Bake for about
30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool in the pans on a wire racks for about 20 minutes, then invert onto
racks and remove pans. Cool completely.

Yield: 2, 9inch layers, 2 inches high

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #8892 Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #628 by
"Angele and Jon Freeman" jfreeman@netusa1.net on May 31, 1997