Double Chocolate Cake

November 23, 2013

• ½ cup butter
• 1 ¾ cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teas salt
• ½ cup cocoa
• 1 cup hot coffee
• ½ cup boiling water
• 1 teas soda
• 1 teas vanilla

Cream butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs

Sift flour, salt

Dissolve the cocoa in the hot coffee

Dissolve the soda in the boiling water

Alternate the dry ingredients with the liquids just until combined

Grease and flour 2 nine inch cake pans or line 24 cupcakes

Bake at 350° for (cakes) 30 minutes (cupcakes) 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Frost as desired –

Hershey bar frosting – 2 one pound Hershey bars (any flavor) melted with ½ cup butter.

Skor bar cake – when the cake is hot, poke holes and pour sweetened condensed milk and caramel sauce all over both layers. Frost with sweetened whipped cream and crushed English toffee.