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Old-fashioned chocolate cake with cocoa frost
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Title: Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake with Cocoa Frost
Categories: Cheesecakes, Chocolate
Yield: 8 servings
Cake:
3 c Flour
2 c Sugar
1/2 c Unsweetened cocoa powder
2 ts Baking soda
1 ts Salt
2 c Cold water
1 c Corn oil
1 tb Vanilla
1 1/2 c Semisweet chocolate chips
Frosting:
1/2 c Plus 2 t unsalted butter
Room temperature
5 c Powdered sugar
8 tb (about) whole milk
1 1/4 ts Vanilla
3/4 c Plus 3 t unsweetened cocoa p
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For Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour
three 9-inch-diameter cake pans with 1-1/2-inch-high sides.
Sift first 5 ingredients into medium bowl. Mix water, oil
and vanilla in large bowl. Whisk in dry ingredients.
Divide batter among pans. Sprinkle 1/2 cup chocolate chips
over batter in each pan. Bake cakes until tester inserted
into center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool cakes
in pans on racks 15 minutes. Cut around pan sides to
loosen cakes. Turn cakes out; cool completely.
For Frosting: Beat butter in large bowl until fluffy.
Gradualy beat in 3 cups sugar. Beat in 6 tablespoons milk
and vanilla. Add cocoa and remaining 2 cups sugar; beat
until blended, thinning with more milk if necessary.
Place 1 cake layer, chocolate-chips side up, on platter.
Spread 2/3 cup frosting over. Top with second cake layer,
chocolate-chips side up. Spread 2/3 cup frosting over. Top
with remaining cake layer, chocolate-chips side down.
Spread frosting over sides and top of cake.
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