---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05 Title: Chocolate Buttermilk Cake Categories: Cakes, Chocolate Yield: 16 servings 1 c Butter 2 1/4 c Sugar 2 Eggs 1 ts Vanilla 3 c Cake flour; sifted 2 ts Baking soda 1/3 c Cocoa 1 ts Salt 2 c Buttermilk Recipe by: John Hampton---xfzr32a Preheat oven to 350~f. Generously grease 2 (10-inch) round cake pans. Lightly dust greased pans with a small amount of sifted cocoa. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add eggs; beat thoroughly. Add vanilla; blend well. Sift cake flour, baking soda, cocoa and salt together. Add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk; start and end with dry ingredients. Beat well after each addition. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until cake tests done. Cool cake in pans 10 minutes before turning out onto wire racks. When cake is cool, spread with Fluffy Filling between the layers and frost top and sides with a chocolate frosting. Fluffy Filling: 1/4 cup butter 3/4 cup sifted powdered sugar 1 tbsp. cocoa 1 egg In a small bowl combine butter, powdered sugar, cocoa and egg. Beat at high speed until filling is fluffy and thick. -----