Grandma Mabel King's Chocolate Cake Recipe
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Ingredients: Cake: 1/2 cup cocoa 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup Crisco 2 eggs 1/2 cup sour cream 2 cups flour (sifted before measuring) 1/4 tsp salt 1 cup hot coffee 1 1/2 tsp baking soda 1 tsp vanilla Frosting: 2 squares of chocolate 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 1/2 tsp Karo Syrup 1/8 tsp salt 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup butter 1 tsp vanilla
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Directions:Cream cocoa, sugar and Crisco. Add eggs and sour cream and mix well. Add flour and salt. Hold cup of coffee over mixture and add soda (it will foam over into mixture). Mix in. Add vanilla and mix well. Bake in three round pans, greased and floured, at 350º F for 20 minutes.
Frosting : Cook until it forms a soft ball when dropped in cold water. Add butter and vanilla last. |
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Notes: This recipe is, by far, the most famous recipe in the King family. Everyone in the world has heard of Mabel King's Chocolate Cake. It is a fact that Uncle Bob always carried this recipe in his wallet. Don't know if it was because he was a police officer and a bank president, that his wallet was like a vault. It could have been more for safe keeping than just to have handy to share with friends. He would be at a friend's house and then say "Hey, let's bake a cake." But he is why we have her recipe today.
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