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Grandma’s Hershey Chocolate Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 large refrigerated eggs
2 cups of all purpose flour
1˝ teaspoon of baking powder
1˝ teaspoon of baking soda
2 cups of Hershey unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups of sugar
3 cups of powder sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
3 teaspoon of vanilla extract
˝ cup of oil
˝ cup of butter
1 cup of buttermilk
⅓ cup of milk
1 cup of water

Hershey Icing

7/8 cup of sugar
3 tablespoons cold water
2 tablespoons of Hershey chocolate syrup
1 egg white
˝ teaspoons vanilla extract
Directions:
Directions:
Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour three 8inch round baking pans.

Mix all wet ingredients in one bowl and dry ingredients in another bowl.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix batter together. Pour boiling water into the batter and stir until smooth. Pour the cake batter into 9 inch round cake pan.

Bake in the middle rack of the oven for about 30/35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Allow cake to completely cool, about ten minutes.

Hershey Icing

Place sugar, unbeaten egg white and water in a double boiler, over hot water and cook for 7 minutes, beating all the time with a beater.

Removed from burner and add Hershey syrup and vanilla e tract. Continue to beat until it cools enough to spread on cake.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
12 serving
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
20 minutes
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
My Grandma, Bertha Johnson and my mama, Dorothy Murray would make this cake every Christmas. This was my dad, Nathaniel Murray favorite cake.

Me and my siblings couldn’t wait for Christmas Day to eat all the cakes and pies my mom would bake. There were always a three layers coconut cake, three layer chocolate cake, three layer yellow and chocolate frosting cake, three layer yellow and lemon cake, lemon meringue pies, chocolate meringue pies and sweet potatoes pies.

 

 

 

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