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- From: aviva@excelan.uucp (Aviva Garrett)
- Newsgroups: alt.gourmand
- Subject: RECIPE: Chocolate layer cake
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- Date: 23 Jul 88 09:44:14 GMT
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- Organization: Excelan, Inc., San Jose, California, USA
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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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