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From: [email protected] (Aviva Garrett)
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Subject: RECIPE: Chocolate layer cake
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Date: 23 Jul 88 09:44:14 GMT
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The recipes are for chocolate layer cake (which, with my
chocolate mousse as frosting, was our wedding cake)
and shortbread cookies.


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RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE CHOC-CAKE-5 D "16 Oct 87" 1988
RZ "CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE" "A moist 2-layer chocolate layer cake"
This was our wedding cake.
IH "serves 8"
IG "1 \(14 cup" "sugar" "250 g"
IG "\(12 cup" "cocoa" "55 g"
IG "\(12 cup" "boiling water" "120 ml"
IG "\(12 cup" "shortening" "120 g"
IG "2" "eggs"
IG "2 tsp" "vanilla" "10 ml"
IG "2 cups" "sifted cake flour" "200 g"
IG "1 tsp" "baking soda" "5 ml"
IG "2/3 cup" "buttermilk" "150 ml"
PH
SK 1
Preheat oven to
TE 350 175 .
Combine
AB "\(12 cup" "100 g"
sugar with cocoa and boiling water, and cook over a low heat,
stirring constantly, until the mixture is glossy. Cool.
SK 2
Cream the shortening and eggs with the remaining sugar.
Add the cocoa mixture and the vanilla.
SK 3
Add the dry ingredients and the buttermilk alternately.
SK 4
Bake in 2 greased layer pans at
TE 350 175
for 30-35 minutes.
SK 5
Frost the cake with your favorite frosting (see note below).
NX
For the frosting on our wedding cake, we used the chocolate mousse filling
described in MOUSSE-CHOC-1.
PP
You can also make this as a single-layer cake.
Just bake it a few minutes longer, as it is thicker.
SH RATING
I Difficulty:
easy.
I Time:
30 minutes preparation, 1 hour baking and cooling and frosting.
I Precision:
measure the ingredients.
WR
Aviva Garrett
Santa Cruz, CA
Excelan, Inc., San Jose, California, USA
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