Chocolatetown Special Cake Recipe
Details
- Time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Skill Level
- Advanced
- Yields
- 8-10 servings
For this festive cake, we used HERSHEY'S Cocoa to create a delicious pound cake. Try making it today!
Ingredients & Directions
- Prep Time
- 30 minutes
- Bake Time
- 35 minutes
- Cool Time
- 10 minutes
BAKE MODE:
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Ingredients
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1/2 cupHERSHEY'S Cocoa (125 mL)
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1/2 cupboiling water (125 mL)
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2/3 cupshortening (150 mL)
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1 3/4 cupsgranulated sugar (425 mL)
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1 tspvanilla extract (5 mL)
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2eggs
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2 1/4 cupsall-purpose flour (550 mL)
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1 1/2 tspsbaking soda (7 mL)
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1/2 tspsalt (2 mL)
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1 1/3 cupsbuttermilk or soured milk* (325 mL)
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One-Bowl Buttercream Frosting:
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6 tbspsbutter or margarine, softened (90 mL)
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2 2/3 cupsicing sugar (650 mL)
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1/2 cupHERSHEY'S Cocoa (125 mL)
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1/3 cupmilk (75 mL)
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1 tspvanilla extract (5 mL)
Key Ingredients
Directions
Equipment Needed
Oven
(2) 9-inch (23 cm) Round Baking Pans
Measuring Cups
Mixing Bowl
Mixer
Wire Rack
1
Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Grease and flour two 9-inch (1.5 L) round cake pans.
2
Stir cocoa and water together in a small bowl until smooth. Beat shortening, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl until fluffy. Add eggs; beat well. Stir flour with baking soda and salt; add to shortening mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating until well blended. Add cocoa mixture; beat well. Divide batter evenly between prepared pans.
3
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the centre comes out clean; cool for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pans to a rack; cool completely.
4
One-Bowl Buttercream Frosting: Beat butter in a medium bowl until fluffy. Combine the icing sugar with the cocoa. Add alternately with the milk to the butter until smooth. Add additional milk, a bit at a time, until a spreadable consistency is reached; stir in vanilla. Frost cooled cake.
Note: * To sour milk: use 4 tsps (20 mL) white vinegar plus milk to equal 1 1/3 cups (325 mL)
