Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 1,300 gr butter
- 550 gr powdered sugar
- 500 gr sugar
- 475 ml boiling water
- 350 gr flour
- 240 ml whipping cream
- 230 gr margarine
- 170 gr semisweet chocolate
- 85 gr cocoa
- 9 gr baking soda
- 7 gr vanilla
- 4 gr vanilla extract
- 1 gr salt
Recipe by: Southern Living Five Star Recipe Perfect Chocolate Cake: Combine cocoa and boiling water, stirring until smooth; set aside. Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, one at a time. Combine flour, soda, baking powder, and salt in bowl; add to mixture alternately with cocoa mixture. Stir in vanilla. Use two 25 cm pans. Bake 180ºC or -0ºC 40 minutes. WHIPPPED CREAM FILLING: Beat whipping cream and vanilla until foamy; gradually add powdered sugar. Makes 1 cup. PERFECT CHOCOLATE FROSTING: Combine first three ingredients in saucepan; cook until chocolate melts. Remove from heat; add powdered sugar. Set pan in ice, and beat until frosting holds it shape and loses it gloss. Add a few more drops of half/half if needed to make spreading consistency. Makes 2.5 cups ----