Apple Chocolate Fudge Cake

Ingredients

3 unsweetened baking
300 ml milk
300 gr sugar
240 ml applesauce
4 gr vanilla
250 gr flour
5 ml soda
3 gr salt
95 gr shortening
3 eggs

Instructions

Mix chocolate, half cup milk and half cup sugar in saucepan. Cook and stir until thick and smooth. Stir in applesauce and vanilla. Cool. Combinad and sift dry ingredients. Set aside. Cream shortening with remaining 1 cup sugar, blend in eggs one at a time. Alternately add dry ingredients and remaining 0.75 cup milk to creamed mixture, blending well after each addition. Blend in chocolate mixture. Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 20 cm layer pans. Bake in 180ºC oven for 40 minutes, or until tested done. Cool. Split each cooled layer. Frost cake with APPLE FLUFF FROSTING or APPLE CREAM FROSTING (see separate recipes) From Birmingham News Food Section, 1090ºC ormatted by Linda Caldwell ----