famous chocolate cake

A family favorite my famous chocolate cake

Ingredients :

• 2 cups of sugar
• 1 and 3/4 cup of all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup of Hershey’s cocoa
• 1- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1-1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup of milk
• 1/2cup of vegetable oil
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup of boiling water

Directions :

1. Heat oven to 350
2. Grease and flour 2 9 inch round cake pans( I use bakers joy to spray my pans)
3. Combine all dry ingredients in large bowl
4. Add eggs ,milk ,oil and vanilla
5. Beat on medium speed 2 min.
6. Stir in boiling water*batter will be thin so don’t panic.
7. Pour in prepared pans
8. Bake thirty min. or until wooden tooth pick comes out clean.
9. Cool completely before frosting
10. Use your recipe for cream cheese frosting
11. I make mine by just mixing two packages of softened cream cheese
12. 2/3 cup of cocoa around 3 cups of powdered sugar
13. 1 teaspoon of vanilla
14. Add enough vegetable oil to chocolate to make a smooth creamy paste.add all these ingredients
15. No need to add milk unless the frosting becomes grainy then only add one tablespoon
16. This is my recipe I conjured up in my head
17. And I tweek it until it looks like I want it to look or if you have a recipe for your favorite icing you can use it but it’s better with cream cheese