Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake
Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake

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Choose From Classic Cakes, Cheesecakes & Variety Boxes. Great recipe for Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake. Now all you have to do is put all the cake ingredients - flour, sugar, baking powder and bicarb, cocoa, butter, eggs, vanilla and sour cream - into a food processor and process until you have a smooth, thick batter. This Old fashioned Chocolate Cake was moist, tender, ain't too sweet and it's loaded with chocolate flavor.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook mike's old fashion chocolate cake using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake:
  1. Get Old Fashion Chocolate Frosting
  2. Make ready 6 oz Semisweet Chocolate Pieces [or 2 cups]
  3. Prepare Shortening
  4. Make ready Confectioners' Sugar
  5. Take Whole Milk
  6. Take Old Fashion Chocolate Cake
  7. Prepare Cake Flour
  8. Make ready Sugar
  9. Take Powdered Cocoa
  10. Take Whole Milk
  11. Take Shortening
  12. Get Fresh Eggs
  13. Make ready Baking Soda
  14. Prepare Salt
  15. Make ready Vanilla Extract
  16. Take Baking Powder
  17. Make ready Cake Garnish
  18. Take 12 oz Bag Pecan Slivers

Line bottom of pan with parchment paper. In large bowl or standing mixer, cream butter until light and fluffy. In a large heavy saucepan, melt the cocoa powder, sugar, evaporated milk, vanilla extract, margarine, and marshmallows over medium-low heat until the sugar is dissolved. Be careful as the liquid will be hot.

Steps to make Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake:
  1. OLD FASHION CHOCOLATE FROSTING DIRECTIONS In a double boiler, over hot, not boiling water, gently melt the chocolate and the shortening together. Add to that your milk and sugar and mix again. Take from heat and set to the side. Hand mix or beat on low with electric mixer until everything is incorporated. Usually about 3 minutes. Set to the side.
  2. Preheat oven to 350°.
  3. OLD FASHION CHOCOLATE CAKE DIRECTIONS Add everything in this section together with an electric beater until all ingredients are fully incorporated. Usually about 5 minutes.
  4. Evenly pour cake batter into two 9" nonstick round cake pans. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Insert a toothpick into the center of your cakes. If the toothpick comes out clean, your cake is done. If not, bake a few minutes longer. Allow cakes to cool.
  5. On your most lopsided cake top, gently shave off enough of the top to allow the other to sit evenly and stable upon it.
  6. On the plate you intend to serve your cake upon, place the bottom tier down and gently smear some frosting on the top you've just shaved. Place the top tier on it and frost the second top tier as well. Frost the sides evenly and fill in the gap between the two tiers.
  7. Gather a handful of pecan slivers and gently, but firmly, pack them on to the sides of your cake. Let the excess pecans fall to the bottom of your serving tray.
  8. Clean up the bottom of your serving tray of any excess pecan slivers or chocolate frosting.
  9. Serve with ice cold whole milk.

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