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       Title: Classic Hershey Bar Cake
  Categories: Cheesecakes, Chocolate
       Yield: 1 servings
  
       1 c  Butter or margarine;
            -softened
   1 1/4 c  Granulated sugar
       4    Eggs
       6    Hershey’s milk chocolate
            -bars
            =(1.55 oz. each); melted
   2 1/2 c  All-purpose flour
     1/4 ts Baking soda
            A dash salt
       1 c  Buttermilk or sour milk*
     1/2 c  Hershey’s syrup
       2 ts Vanilla extract
       1 c  Chopped pecans
            Powdered sugar (optional)
  
   Recipe by: www.hersheys.com
        Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease and flour
   10-inch tube pan or 12-cup fluted tube pan. In large mixer
   bowl, beat butter until creamy; gradually add granulated
   sugar, beating on medium speed of electric mixer until well
   blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each
   addition. Add chocolate; beat until blended. Stir together
   flour, baking soda and salt; add to chocolate mixture
   alternately with buttermilk, beating until blended. Add
   syrup and vanilla; beat until blended. Stir in pecans. Pour
   batter into prepared pan. Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes or
   until wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out
   clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool
   completely. Sift powdered sugar over top, if desired. 12 to
        16    servings.
   * To sour milk: Use 1 tablespoon white vinegar plus milk to
   equal 1 cup. JM
   Hershey’s is a registered trademark of Hershey Foods
   Corporation. Recipe may be reprinted courtesy of the
   Hershey Kitchens.
  
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