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       Title: Decadent Fudge Cake
  Categories: Cheesecakes
       Yield: 1 servings
  
       1 c  Butter or margarine;
            -softened
   1 1/2 c  Sugar
       4    Eggs
     1/2 ts Baking soda
       1 c  Buttermilk
   1 1/2 c  All-purpose flour
   1 1/2 c  Semisweet chocolate
            -mini-morsels
            = divided
       2    Sweet baking chocolate
            Melted and cooled/4 oz each
     1/3 c  Chocolate syrup
       2 ts Vanilla extract
       4 oz White chocolate; chopped
       2 tb Plus 2 tsps shortening; divi
            -ded
  
   Cream butter in a large mixing bowl; gradually add sugar,
   beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer.  Add
   eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
   Dissolve soda in buttermilk, stirring well.  Add to creamed
   mixture alternately with flour, beginning and ending with
   flour.  Add 1 cup mini-morsels, melted chocolate, chocolate
   syrup, and vanilla, stirring just until blended.  (Do not
   overbeat.)Spoon batter into a heavily greased and floured
   10-inch Bundt pan.  Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour and 25
   to 35 minutes or until cake springs back when touched.
   Invert cake immediately onto a serving plate, and let cool
   completely.
   
   Combine 4 ounces chopped white chocolate and 2 tablespoons
   shortening in top of a double boiler; bring water to a
   boil.  Reduce heat to low; cook until mixture is melted and
   smooth.  Remove from heat.  Drizzle melted white chocolate
   mixture over cooled cake.  Melt remaining 1/2 cup
   mini-morsels and 2 teaspoons shortening in a small saucepan
   over low heat, stirring until smooth.  Remove from heat,
   and let cool; drizzle over white chocolate.  If desired,
   garnish with chocolate and white chocolate leaves.  Yield
   one 10-inch cake.JM. (from Southern Living)
  
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