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Old-Fashioned Chocolate Layer Cake

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Yield: 8 Servings Ready in 1 hours

Cuisine: AmericanMain Ingredient: Cake

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Servings          
Original recipe makes 8 Servings
FOR THE ICING
2 cLight brown sugar
3 Eggs; separated
FOR THE CAKE
1/2 cUnsalted butter; cut into
1 cnSweetened condensed milk
4 ozSemisweet chocolate
1 tsVanilla extract
1 tsBaking soda
2 cSifted cake or soft wheat
1/2 tsSalt
1/2 cUnsalted butter; softened
3 ozUnsweetened Chocolate
1 1/4 cmilk
1 1/2 tsVanilla extract
1 Egg yolk; lightly beaten

Old-Fashioned Chocolate Layer Cake Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. To make the cake, combine the chocolate, milk, brown sugar, vanilla and 1 egg yolk in the top of a double boiler. Cook, stirring over hot water until smooth. Remove from the heat and let cool. Sift the flour with the baking soda and salt. Beat the butter in a large bowl of an electric mixer until light. Add the remaining 2 egg yolks, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Beat in the chocolate mixture in 3 parts, alternating with the flour mixture. Do not overbeat. Beat the egg whites until stiff; fold into the batter. Pour the batter into 2 greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out fairly clean, 20 to 30 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack before unmolding. To make the icing, melt the chocolate in the top of a double boiler over hot water. Stir in the condensed milk until smooth. Sitr in the butter, bit by bit, until smooth. Whisk in the egg yolk and vanilla and cook until slightly thickened. Let cool slightly, then smooth over the bottom layer; place other layer on top, then ice the sides and top of the cake. Yield: 8 to 10 servings Formatted by suechef@sover.net Recipe by: DEAN FEARING #HE1A06 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #792 by Sue on Sep 19, 1997

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Calories Per Serving: 910
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