Real old world chocolate cake

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Preparation Time:

10 Min

Serves:

Difficulty:

Easy

Cost:

Main Ingredients:

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Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 1/2 c Cake flour; sifted 1 1/4 c Sugar
1/3 c Cocoa; baking 1 tb Instant coffee
1 1/3 ts Baking soda 3/4 ts Salt
2/3 c Vegetable shortening 1 c Buttermilk
1 ts Vanilla extract 2 ea Eggs; large
1 x --sweetened whipped cream--- 1 c Heavy whipping cream
2 tb Sugar 1 ts Vanilla extract

Sift the cake flour, sugar, cocoa, instant coffee, baking soda and salt
together in a large mixing bowl. Add the shortening, 2/3 c of the
buttermilk and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer, set on medium speed,
for 2 minutes. Add remaining 1/3 c of buttermilk and eggs. Beat, at medium
speed, for 2 more minutes. Pour batter into 2 greased 8-inch round cake
pans. Bake in a 350 degree F preheated oven for 30 minutes or until cakes
test done. Cool in pans on racks for 10 minutes. Remove from pans; and
completely cool. Place one cake layer on serving palte. Spread with
Sweetened Whipped Cream. Top with second cake layer. Frost cake with
remaining Sweetened Whipped Cream.
Refrigerate until serving time. SWEETENED WHIPPED CREAM: Chill mixing bowl
and beaters. Place cream, sugar, and vanilla in chilled bowl. Beat with
electric mixer, at high speed, until soft peaks form and mixture is of a
spreading consistency. DO NOT overbeat. (If you do, you will have butter.)