Chocolate Cake

This chocolate cake recipe was awesome. To be honest, chocolate cake is not my favorite, but this was really moist and really delicious. The frosting was great too, really thick and not too sweet. I used Hershey's chocolate cake recipe and altered their frosting recipe.






Ingredients for the cake:

2 cups sugar
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup Cocoa
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Stir together all of the dry ingredients. Mix in the eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla and beat for a few minutes. Add in the boiling water. Pour batter into two 9 inch cake dishes (make sure they are well buttered and flowered). Bake for 30-35 minutes. Allow to cool about 10 minutes, take them out of the dishes, then let cool completely. Frost and decorate!

Ingredients for the frosting:

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
2/3 cup Cocoa
2 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Melt the butter. Beat in the cocoa powder. Add in the powdered sugar and milk alternatively. Add vanilla.

Yum!

-I