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      Title: Double Chocolate Bar Cake
 Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
      Yield: 12 servings
 
           For cake:
      1    Milk chocolate; (7-oz)  brok
           -en
           Into bits
    1/2 c  Butter or margarine
           -- softened
      1 c  Boiling water
      2 c  All-purpose flour
  5 1/2 c  Granulated sugar
    1/2 c  Unsweetened cocoa powder
      2 ts Baking soda
      1 ts Salt
      2    Eggs
    1/2 c  Sour cream
      1 ts Vanilla
           For frosting:
      1 c  Powdered sugar
    1/2 c  Unsweetened cocoa powder
      2 c  Whipping cream
      2 ts Vanilla
 
  Recipe by: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  To prepare cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and
  flour 3 (9-inch) round baking pans.
  In a small bowl, stir together chocolate bar pieces, butter
  and water until chocolate melts.
  In a large mixer bowl, stir together flour, sugar, cocoa
  powder, baking soda and salt. Gradually add chocolate
  mixture, beating on medium speed until well blended. Add
  eggs, sour cream and vanilla; beat until well blended. Beat
  on medium speed 1 minute.
  Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or
  until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Let
  cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Let cool
  completely.
  To prepare frosting: In large mixer bowl, stir together
  sugar and cocoa powder. Add cream and vanilla; beat until
  stiff. Use to fill and frost cake.
  Refrigerate any leftover cake.
  Yield: 12 servings.
  Tester's note: Very rich, light cake. Not too sweet, but
  with an intense chocolate flavor.
  From The Franklin House, Alton, Illinois.
 
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