14-Layer Chocolate Cake

Recipe Rating:	4 Ratings5
Categories:	Cakes, Chocolate, Quick & Easy

Ingredients

2 stk	soft butter (leave out overnight)
2 1/2 c	granulated sugar
2 tsp	pure vanilla extract
6	eggs
1 1/2 c	milk
4 c	self-rising flour
ICING:
3	blocks of baker's plain chocolate
1 stk	real butter
2 sm	cans carnation evaporated milk
3 c	granulated sugar
3 Tbsp	cornstarch
	just a pinch of salt
1 1/2 tsp	pure vanilla extract

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Bea L.

Well Seasoned

Emerald Isle, NC (pop. 3,655)

coffeetime

Member Since Oct 2010

Bea's Notes:

I'm posting this recipe as per DIANE HUGHES' request. Diane, let me know how this turns out for you if you make it. This recipe belongs to Joyce, which worked in an elementary school lunch room. I haven't made this cake myself but I've eaten hers and it is wonderful, however, I do plan on making it at some point.

This is the old-fashioned kind of cake that our grandmothers, great-grandmothers used to make. I'm posting this just as Joyce has written it out.

My favorite icing is used on Opel's Chocolate Stack Cake so go over to that recipe and check out that icing. It will definitely be enough icing for this 14-layer cake.

Directions

CAKE: Preheat oven to 400. Wax paper & grease cake pans. Mix first 5 ingredients together then stir in flour & combine well. Put 3 large tablespoons of batter in each cake pan and bake at 400 for approximately 10 minutes. Turn layers out and keep covered with dish towels.

ICING: Melt chocolate with a few teaspoons of warm water until smooth. Mix the sugar with the cornstarch. Stir all ingredients together and bring to a boil. Boil for about 10 minutes on medium heat. This icing will be thin but will harden later. Spread between layers but poke holes (use a toothpick) in layers as you go to allow icing to seep into layers. Ice top & sides and keep spooning icing back on cake as it may puddle on bottom of cake plate.

*Pleast refer to "Bea's Notes" above regarding the icing.

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Bea L. coffeetime

Dec 9, 2010

DIANE HUGHES: I posted this for you. I'll post the other one later. It is called Opel's Chocolate Stack Cake. I have actually made hers, which is a 10-layer cake.

Krystal Jordan SkittlesofDoom

Dec 10, 2010

OMG Looks so good. I keep picturing the giant chocolate cake from Matilda, lol.

Bea L. coffeetime

Dec 10, 2010

I'll post a pic whenever I make it. It's goooood, too, girl!

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Colleen Sowa colleenlucky7

I tried this recipe and say it's Family Tested & Approved!

Bea L. coffeetime

May 15, 2011

Thank you, Colleen, I'm just now seeing this. How did the cake look? Which icing recipe did you use?

jackie putman jax

Jul 14, 2011

how many cake pans

Bea L. coffeetime

Jul 14, 2011

Hi, Jackie. I'm just now getting online from a very busy day. Use ever how many cake pans you can get in your oven at the time. Bake your layers then let stand in in cake pans for about 5 minutes, turn out, keep layers covered w/dish towel, wash pans and repeat until all layers have been baked. Also, what I do is stack my layers with a paper towel or dish towel between the layers and place a large dish towel over top. This keeps them warm. Let me know if you have other questions.

lynda morris lynnie_542004

Oct 22, 2011

omg!..i found this recipe and had to try it...Thank you thank you thank you! My grandma used to make this cake for me every year for 28 years for my birthday. I miss her dearly.. It has brought back such sweet sweet memories.

Bea L. coffeetime

Oct 22, 2011

Lynda, I am thrilled for you, hon. Whenever you make it I hope you'll be able to get a pic. Also, check out this one: Opel's Chocolate Stack Cake

14-Layer Chocolate Cake

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