BEST-EVER CHOCOLATE CAKE    Rita DeBry

This is the closest recipe that I have found to Magelby’s Chocolate Cake!

 

1 cup butter (2 cubes) softened                    2 ½ cup flour

3 eggs                                                           ½ cup plus 2 Tbsp. cocoa powder

1 cup granulated sugar                                 1 tsp. baking soda

1 cup packed brown sugar                            ¾  tsp. baking powder

2 tsp. vanilla                                                 ½ tsp. salt

         1 ½ cups buttermilk

 

Cream together well butter, eggs, sugars and vanilla.                                   

 Sift dry ingredients together.

Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to creamed mixture.  Pour into a 9 x 13 pan or 2 round pans.  Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.  Cool and frost with recipe below. 

Note:  to make sour milk just add 1 ½ Tbsp white vinegar to 1 ½ cup milk to sour it

 

Best-ever Chocolate Frosting

1 cube butter, softened

1 egg

3   1 oz. unsweetened squares of baking chocolate (melted)

1 tsp. vanilla

2 dashes salt

1 Tbsp Cocoa powder

3 to 4 cups powdered sugar

Mix together well and thin with milk or whipping cream