best ever chocolate cake

Name: Best Ever Chocolate Cake
Ingredients: 2.5 cup(s) sugar; 1 cup(s) shortening or 2 sticks butter; 2 - eggs; 2.5 cup(s) flour; 1/2 cup(s) cocoa; 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt; 1 cup(s) buttermilk; 1 cup(s) boiling water; 2 teaspoon(s) soda (scant teaspoons)

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donna morales

New Orleans, LA

Updated on Nov 21, 2011

Just read one of Jan's post about being able to "adopt" a recipe and had no idea we could do that. She was telling someone where they could find them, and so went looking and adopted this one. Will be working on it to see how it can be improved.This should be really fun.

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Ingredients

2.5 cups sugar
1 cup shortening or 2 sticks butter
2 - eggs
2.5 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup boiling water
2 teaspoons soda (scant teaspoons)

How To Make best ever chocolate cake

Step 1

Cream sugar and shortening and add eggs, one at a time.

Step 2

Sift flour three times with cocoa and salt.
Step 3

Add alternately with buttermilk.
Step 4

Add soda and water and add to above ingredients.
Step 5

Grease and flour 9 x 13 x 2 inch pan.
Step 6

Bake at 300 degrees for 90 minutes.
Step 7

Test for doneness, then cool and ice with your favorite icing.
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