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

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

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

Spread the top of the cooled cake with the Melted Chocolate Bar Frosting. Cover pan tightly with plastic wrap or foil, and store at room temperature. Chocolate Buttermilk Cake is the perfect, moist, super-dark, old fashioned chocolate cake. Fill it with buttercream, whipped cream or fruit fillings.

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.

Cakes made from a mix have a the super soft, very fine crumb that many, many people think of as the quintessential old fashioned chocolate layer cake. Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake - a rich chocolate cake recipe topped with sweet chocolate buttercream frosting. You don't want to miss this classic dessert! Now whisk together the cocoa, sour cream, vanilla, and eggs and beat this into your bowl of mixture. Divide this batter, using a rubber spatula to help you scrape and spread, into the prepared tins and bake until a cake tester comes out.

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