Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake
Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake

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Old- fashioned Chocolate Cake, that just melt in your mouth. Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake Recipe from HERSHEY'S Kitchens. This old fashioned chocolate cake is made even better by a tangy buttermilk pecan icing.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mike's old fashion chocolate cake using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake:
  1. Prepare Old Fashion Chocolate Frosting
  2. Make ready 2 packages 6 oz Semisweet Chocolate Pieces [or 2 cups]
  3. Prepare 1/4 cup Shortening
  4. Take 3 cup Confectioners' Sugar
  5. Prepare 1/2 cup Whole Milk
  6. Make ready Old Fashion Chocolate Cake
  7. Make ready 2 cup Cake Flour
  8. Take 1 3/4 cup Sugar
  9. Take 3/4 cup Powdered Cocoa
  10. Prepare 1 1/4 cup Whole Milk
  11. Take 3/4 cup Shortening
  12. Get 3 Fresh Eggs
  13. Take 1 1/4 tsp Baking Soda
  14. Take 1 tsp Salt
  15. Make ready 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  16. Make ready 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
  17. Prepare Cake Garnish
  18. Prepare 1 12 oz Bag Pecan Slivers

Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake - a rich chocolate cake recipe topped with sweet chocolate buttercream frosting. You don't want to miss this classic dessert! It's simple buttercream made with a lot of melted chocolate, not cocoa, and it turned out incredibly silky and smooth. This Old Fashioned Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake Recipe is the ultimate chocolate lover's cake to be sure.

Steps to make Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake:
  1. OLD FASHION CHOCOLATE FROSTING DIRECTIONS In a double boiler, over hot, not boiling water, gently melt the chocolate and the shortening together. Add to that your milk and sugar and mix again. Take from heat and set to the side. Hand mix or beat on low with electric mixer until everything is incorporated. Usually about 3 minutes. Set to the side.
  2. Preheat oven to 350°.
  3. OLD FASHION CHOCOLATE CAKE DIRECTIONS Add everything in this section together with an electric beater until all ingredients are fully incorporated. Usually about 5 minutes.
  4. Evenly pour cake batter into two 9" nonstick round cake pans. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Insert a toothpick into the center of your cakes. If the toothpick comes out clean, your cake is done. If not, bake a few minutes longer. Allow cakes to cool.
  5. On your most lopsided cake top, gently shave off enough of the top to allow the other to sit evenly and stable upon it.
  6. On the plate you intend to serve your cake upon, place the bottom tier down and gently smear some frosting on the top you've just shaved. Place the top tier on it and frost the second top tier as well. Frost the sides evenly and fill in the gap between the two tiers.
  7. Gather a handful of pecan slivers and gently, but firmly, pack them on to the sides of your cake. Let the excess pecans fall to the bottom of your serving tray.
  8. Clean up the bottom of your serving tray of any excess pecan slivers or chocolate frosting.
  9. Serve with ice cold whole milk.

Don't you just love those sliced strawberries on top? An Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake from the Great Depression Era. It's a classic chocolate buttercream recipe using cocoa powder for the chocolate addition and evaporated milk. You can use regular milk, however if you use evaporated milk the entire cake can be stored at room temperature. This is just a great, basic, perfectly chocolaty, moist, delicious old-fashioned cake.

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