Recipe - Perfect Chocolate Cake With Perfect Chocolate Frosting

1 cup Cocoa
2 cup Boiling water
1 cup Margarine
2 One half cup Sugar
4 Eggs
2 Three fourths cup Flour
2 teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
1 One half teaspoon Vanilla

WHIPPPED CREAM FILLING
1 cup Whipping cream
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
One fourth cup Powdered sugar

PERFECT CHOCOLATE FROSTING
6 ounce Semisweet chocolate
One half cup Half and half
Three fourths cup Butter
2 One half cup Powdered sugar

Perfect Chocolate Cake: Combine cocoa and boiling water, stirring until
smooth; set aside. Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add
eggs, one at a time. Combine flour, soda, baking powder, and salt in bowl;
add to mixture alternately with cocoa mixture. Stir in vanilla.

Use two 10" pans. Bake 350 degrees for 30 40 minutes

WHIPPPED CREAM FILLING: Beat whipping cream and vanilla until foamy;
gradually add powdered sugar. Makes 1 cup.

PERFECT CHOCOLATE FROSTING: Combine first three ingredients in saucepan;
cook until chocolate melts. Remove from heat; add powdered sugar. Set pan
is ice, and beat until frosting holds it shape and loses it gloss. Add a
few more drops of half/half if needed to make spreading consistency. Makes
2 One half cups
Recipe By : Southern Living Five Star Recipe

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #293

Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 22:10:16 0800

From: scahill@tcsn.net (Edward Cahill)