Sunday Night Chocolate Cake

Sunday Night Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 c. unsalted butter (room temp.)
• 1 1/3 c. sugar
• 3 large eggs (room temp.)
• 2 c. plus 2 Tbs cake flour
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 3/4 c. milk
• 1 tsp. Nielsen-Massey Vanilla

Directions:

Cream butter until light, add sugar slowly. Add eggs on at a time, beating after each until whole mixture is fluffly.
Sift dry ingredients together and add to batter in 3 parts, alternating with the milk added in 2 parts. Stir in vanilla and turn into pans.
For 3 9"layers bake at 350° approx. 25 min. For 10 8" layers bake at 400° for approx. 10 min. on the next to the highest rack. Use 1/4 c icing for each layer. I made 5 layers this time.


Chocolate Icing:

• 1 3/4 c plus 2 T sugar
• 1/2 c cocoa
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/2 c milk
• 1/2 c unsalted butter
• 1 oz. unsweetened chocolate (broken into pieces)
• 1 tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla
• 2 tsp. heavy cream

Bring sugar, cocoa, salt, milk, and the butter to a full boil. Add the chocolate pieces and boil for 3 min. Turn off burner and let cool to 110°. DO NOT stir, shake, or jostle the pan until cooled (use thermometer). Beat in vanilla and cream, just until incorporated. DO NOT overbeat or you will have fudge!

Recipe submitted by Ellen Smith

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