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Viewed: 36 - Published at: 7 years agoIngredients
- 4 unsweetened chocolate
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- sour milk
- 1/2 cup cake flour, sifted
- 1-1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 3/4 tsp. soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup butter
- shortening
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 eggs, well beaten
- 1 cup buttermilk
- sour milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Method
- Melt chocolate over boiling water; add 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup buttermilk and stir over boiling water until sugar is dissolved.
- Cool.
- Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, soda, and salt and sift together three times.
- Cream butter thoroughly add 3/4 cup sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs and beat well.
- Add about 1/4 of flour mixture, mix thoroughly; add chocolate mixture and blend.
- Add remaining flour, alternately with buttermilk, a small amount at a time; beat very thoroughly after each addition.
- Add vanilla.
- Bake in greased 15x9x2-inch pan, in a moderate oven (350F) 30 minutes, or until cake is done.
- When cold, trim edges, cut in half crosswise, and put together as a two-layer cake, matching edges carefully.
- Spread tops and sides with Martha Washington's Fudge Frosting.
- Or add chopped nut meats to part of frosting and use as filling.
