Extreme Chocolate Cake

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In celebration of another depressing holiday spent alone, I am providing you with this wonderful recipe for chocolate cake. You may wish to indulge while you watch The Notebook, with several bottles of wine and the other independent women in your life. If you happen to be one of those blessed individuals that has a significant other, why not try making this recipe into cupcakes for a dessert that is sure to impress in all of its rich, chocolatey goodness.

Friends, I have also taken the time to write you a Valentine's Day limerick:

To conclude your meal please make this cake
Because men like a girl that can bake
I assure you that food
Puts a guy in the mood
Even so, you might still have to fake

The number one reason why I like this recipe is because the chocolate flavor is so extreme yet it only uses cocoa powder. So if you are cheap like me, this does not require you to buy expensive baking chocolate. Plus who wants to chop that chocolate, and melt it? Not me.


INGREDIENTS

Cake
2 cups white sugar
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water

Frosting
3/4 cup butter
1 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
5 1/3 cups confectioners' sugar
2/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract


DIRECTIONS

1) Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour two 9 inch cake pans. *Note: try using cocoa powder instead of flour to prepare your pans, there will be no white residue on the cake after baking!

2) In a medium bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt. To your stand up mixer, add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla. Add the dry ingredients to the mixer and beat for approximately 3 minutes. Stir in the boiling water by hand. Pour evenly into the prepared pans.

3) Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from the pans. Cool completely before attempting to frost.

4) In mixer, cream the butter. Stir in the cocoa and confectioners' sugar alternately with the milk and vanilla. Beat until light and fluffy.

5) Frost the top of one cake and stack second cake on top. Frost the outside of the cake.

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