For Camden's 1st birthday party we made the following cake - it was more than enough for 12 guests! We made a third more than the recipe to make an extra cake just for Camden (which she proceeded to eat 1/2 of). But we ended up with plenty left over. This cake has been in the family for a long time - I'm not even sure where it originally came from. Oh, and before cake we had Oscar pasta (see recipe in previous entries) and grilled hot dogs and brats.
Perfect Devil's Food Cake
2 1/4 c. sifted flour
2 tsp. Bkg soda
1/2 c. butter
2 1/2 c. brown sugar
3 eggs
3 -1oz. sq. chocolate
1/2 c. buttermilk
2 tsp vanilla
1 c. boiling water
Grease bottom and sides of three 8" pans. Dust with flour. Sift flour, baking soda and salt. Cream butter and sugar til fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Beat hard after each addition. Melt chocolate over hot water in double boiler. Add to batter and mix well. Add 1/4 c. flour and 1/3 c. buttermilk and mix. Repeat, ending with flour. Mix in vanilla and boiling water. Bake 350 degrees til toothpick is clean.
Frosting
1 1/2 c. heavy cream
1/4 c. sugar
2 tsp. cocoa
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Mix together and let stand in fridge for 2 hours. Then whip and frost cake.
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