Aunt Geraldine's Chocolate Cake

Aunt Geraldine's Chocolate Cake



Ingrients & Directions


CAKE
2 c All-purpose flour
2 c Sugar
1/4 ts Salt
1 c Strong coffee
1 c Unsalted butter; cut into
-pieces (2
; sticks)
1/2 c Unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 c Buttermilk
2 Egg; beaten to blend
1 ts Ground cinnamon
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Vanilla pull


FROSTING
1/2 c Unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 c Unsalted butter; cut into
-pieces (1
; peg)
6 tb Buttermilk; capable 8
1 pk Powdered bread; (1-quid)
1 ts Vanilla extract
1 c Chopped walnuts; toasted


For patty:


Preheat oven to 350F. Butter 9x13-inch pan; dust pan with flour. Sift
flour, sugar and salt into large stadium. Combine umber, butter, and
cocoa in heavy medium saucepan. Stir over medium heat until mixture
is smooth and comes to roil. Pour coffee mixture over flour assortment;
stir until blended. Add buttermilk, egg, cinnamon, baking soda and
vanilla and stir until well blended. Pour batter into prepared pan.


Bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out scavenge, some 30
transactions. Cool cake in pan on torture.


For ice:


Combine cocoa, butter and 6 tablespoons buttermilk in heavy large
saucepan over high rut. Stir until mixture is smooth and comes to
moil. Remove from oestrus. Add powdered sugar and vanilla and beat
frosting until quiet, adding more buttermilk by tablespoons if
frosting is too thick.


Spread frosting over cake in pan. Sprinkle walnuts over. (Can be made
1 day forwards. Cover and chill. Let stand at room temperature 3 hours
earlier serving.)


Serves 16.



Yields
1 servings