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     Homemade Chocolate Cake

Category   Desserts - Breads
Sub Category   None
Servings   8 to 10
Preptime   2 hours

Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teas baking powder
2 teas baking soda
1 teas salt
2 cups sugar
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 teas pure vanilla extract
Frosting-
 
1 1/3 cups heavy cream
1 1/2 cups sugar
6 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1 stick plus 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 1/2 teas pure vanilla extract
pinch of salt

Instructions
Make the Cake- Preheat oven to 350. Butter and flour two 8 by 1 1/2 inch round cake pans. Line the bottoms with wax paper. In medium bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
In a saucepan, bring the sugar and 2 cups of water to a boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves, pour into a heatproof bowl. Add the chocolate and butter and stir until the chocolate melts and the mixture cools slightly. Beat in the vanilla and eggs. Add the dry ingred. and beat until smooth.
Poru the batter into the pans and bake for 30 min. until a cake tester inserted int the center comes out clean. coll the cakes on a rack for 25 minutes., then invert them onto the rack to cool completely. Peel off the wax paper.
Frosting- In a medium saucepan, bring the cream and sugar to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer, stirring, until the cream reduces slightly, 6 minutes. Pour the cream into the a heatproof bowl and add the remaining ingred. Stir until the chocolate and butter are melted. Set tueh bowl in ice water. using a handheld electr. mixer, beath the frosting at medium speed until thick and glossy, 5 minutes. Set one cake on a platter, right side up. Using spatula, sprear 1/3 of the frosting evenly over it. Top with the second cake, and spread remaining.


Originally Submitted
11/12/2010





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