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Fabulous Fudge Cake and Chocolate-Cream Frosting

Insert a super long story about how this Fabulous Fudge Cake recipe was handed down by generations of women. It wasn’t. It came in a 3 pronged folder with a bunch of other cut out recipes that I got at the Salvation Army (back when they still had the as-is store (shakes fist at Covid-19)

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Fabulous Fudge Cake

Bake at 375° for 25-30 minutes. Makes one 9" triple layer cake
Cook Time30 minutes
Course: after church coffee hour, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake, chocolate cake

Equipment

  • Set of 3 nine-inch cake pans

Ingredients

  • 3 squares unsweetened chocolate
  • 2¼ cups sifted cake flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup butter or margarine
  • 2¼ cups firmly packed brown sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • ½ cup buttermilk
  • 1 cup boiling water

Instructions

  • Grease bottoms of 3 nine inch layer-cake pans; line pans with Waxed paper; grease paper.
  • Melt chocolate in a small saucepan over very low heat; save for Step 5.
  • Sift cake flour, baking soda, and salt onto waxed paper.
  • Cream butter or margarine in a large bowl with a spoon or electric mixer at medium speed; gradually add sugar; beat until mixture is fluffy.
  • Beat in eggs, 1 at a time; beat until thick stir in vanilla and chocolate with spoon or mixer at low speed.
  • Add sifted dry ingredients, a third at a time alternately with buttermilk, stirring by hand or with mixer at low speed until just blended; stir in boiling water. Pour into pans.
  • Bake in moderate oven (375°) 25-30 minutes, or until centers spring back when lightly pressed with fingertip.
  • Cool in pans on wire racks 5 minutes; loosen around edges with knife; turn out onto racks; remove wax paper; cool completely. Put layers together and frost.
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CHOCOLATE-CREAM FROSTING

Makes enough to fill and frost 1 9″triple-layer cake
Course: after church coffee hour, cake
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake, chocolate, frosting

Equipment

  • double boiler

Ingredients

  • 2 squares unsweetened chocolate
  • 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 1 cup 10X confectioners’ powdered sugar sifted
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup cream for whipping
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

  • Melt chocolate and butter or margarine on top of a large double boiler over hot, not boiling, water; beat in sugar, salt, and egg until smooth
  • Place the top of the double boiler over ice in a large bowl; start beating with an electric mixer or rotary beater, gradually adding cream; continue beating 3 to 4 minutes, or until fluffy-thick; stir in vanilla.
  • Keep frosting over ice as you work, Chill cake until serving time
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Sour Cream Chocolate Cake with added booze! Cake + booze= fun

Here is where I go on and on about the fluffy snowflake I saw outside of my window this morning and the purring of my cat. Google is a fickle creature and ranks sites with long & boring stories higher.

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SOUR CREAM CHOCOLATE CAKE

Cook Time45 minutes
Course: after church coffee hour, cake, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: alcohol, chocolate, chocolate cake
Servings: 12 slices

Equipment

  • 9" tube pan

Ingredients

Cake:

  • 1/4 pound butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 squares baking chocolate melted
  • 2 cups cake flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier or Cointreau

Chocolate Glaze:

  • 5 tablespoons butter
  • 4 tablespoons light corn syrup
  • 5 squares bittersweet chocolate grated

Instructions

Cake

  • Cream the butter and sugar.
  • Add the eggs and the melted chocolate and mix well.
  • Sift together the dry ingredients and add them to the batter alternately with the sour cream.
  • Add the vanilla and pour the batter into a buttered 9" tube pan.
  • Bake in a preheated 350° oven for 15 minutes, then raise the heat to 375°and bake for 30 minutes more.
  • Place cake on a rack, cool for 5 minutes, and then remove it from the pan.
  • When the cake is cool, sprinkle it with the orange-flavored liqueur.

Glaze

  • In a small saucepan, heat the butter and corn syrup until they are well blended.
  • Remove from the heat and stir in the grated chocolate.
  • Pour on the top of the cake.
  • It will spill down, and you can spread this evenly over the sides.
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Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake

What I find most interesting about this version of the Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake recipie is how it differs from the current official version on the Hellmann’s website. The current version has less flour, less mayonnaise and adds 3 eggs.

Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
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CHOCOLATE MAYONNAlSE CAKE

Delicious cake that stays tender and moist to the last slice. And so easy to make. Whole-egg Hellmann’s replaces both eggs and shortening.
Cook Time3 minutes
Course: after church coffee hour, cake, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake, chocolate cake

Ingredients

  • 3 cups un-sifted all-purpose flour
  • 1½ cups sugar
  • ⅔ cup unsweetened cocoa
  • 2¼ tsp baking powder
  • 1½ tsp baking soda
  • 1½ cups HELLMANN'S Real Mayonnaise
  • ½ cups water
  • 1½ teaspoons vanilla

Instructions

  • Grease 2 {9” x 1 ½”) layer pans; line bottom with waxed paper.
  • Sift together dry ingredients into large bowl.
  • Stir in Real Mayonnaise.
  • Gradually stir in water and vanilla until smooth and blended.
  • Pour into prepared pans. Bake in 350° F. (moderate) oven about 30 minutes or until cake tests done.
  • Cool completely.
  • Remove from pans.
  • Makes 2 layers.
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Dream Cake

Dream Cake

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Course after church coffee hour, cake, Dessert
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 1 package yellow, white or devil's food cake
  • 1 envelope Dream Whip Whipped Topping Mx *use right from envelope
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup cold water

Instructions
 

  • Combine all ingredients in large bowl of electric mixer.
  • Blend until moistened.
  • Beat at medium speed for 4 minutes.
  • Pour into greased and floured pans (see below).
  • Bake at 350°
  • Cool in pans as directed, then remove from pans and finish cooling on racks.

Dream Cake may be baked in the following pans, cooling time is 10 minutes

  • Two 9" layer pans, bake for 30 minutes.
  • Three 8" layer pans, bake for 35 minutes.
  • Two 9"x5" loaf pans, bake for 45 minutes.
  • One 13"x9" pan, bake for 40-45 minutes.
  • 40 medium cupcake pans (½-⅓ full), bake for 20 minutes.
  • One 10" tube pan, bake for 45-50 minutes, cool in pan 15 minutes.
  • One 10" bundt pan, bake for 40 minutes, cool in pan 15 minutes.
Keyword cake
Buy dream whip at amazon!
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An Unusual Pound Cake

unusual pound cake

An Unusual Pound Cake

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Course after church coffee hour, Dessert

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup butter (soft) Or ½ cup soft butter and ½ cup heavy cream
  • 2¾ cups sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour sifted 2-3 times
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp baking soda
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ tsp almond extract

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°
  • Cream butter until light.
  • Gradually add sugar and beat (use a low mixture speed) until light and fluffy.
  • Add eggs (one at a time) and beat well after each addition.
  • Sift flour, salt, and baking soda together.
  • Add the sifted dry ingredients alternately with the sour cream, beginning with the flour mixture.
  • Add the flavoring and stir lightly.
  • Do not overbeat.
  • Pour into an ungreased 9" tube pan and bake for 1 hour 20 minutes or until a straw inserted in the center comes out dry and not sticky.
  • Cool on wire cake rack.
Keyword cake, pound cake