This is an old hand written recipe I found.. I decided to give it a try.. I had never saw a recipe where you mixed your squares of chocolate with water.. I was skeptical.. it turned out nice except for the center of my cake did sink a bit but not too bad, and I did use a larger pan than called for so that could be some of it. Also it is very moist.. the icing I will use again for other recipes.. it was easy and tasty and can be made thick or thin..I did add vanilla to it even though the icing didn’t call for it.
Devils Food Cake
1 cup butter (2 sticks)
3 cups granulated sugar
8 squares of chocolate melted in 1 cup of water
tsp vanilla
3 1/2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup buttermilk
Directions
8 Squares of chocolate melted on the stove with one cup of water stir till melted on medium heat do not let it scorch
Cream butter and sugar.
Add eggs and cooled chocolate mixture
sift together dry ingredients and add to batter then add buttermilk
and vanilla
Bake in 9×13 pan or 2 7×11 pans greased and floured at 350 for 40 minutes for the 9×13 or less for the 7×11 pans
let cool and add icing
Quick Caramel Icing
Melt 2 sticks butter
add 2 cups brown sugar
bring to a boil and boil two minutes.
add 1/2 cup canned milk (evaporated milk)
Return to a boil.
take off heat and let cool slightly. Add one box (4 1/2 cups) confectionary sugar beat till smooth
if you want to thicken add more conf sugar and beat..
spread over cake.
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