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      Title: Light Chocolate Cake
 Categories: Cakes
      Yield: 10 servings
 
  2 1/2 c  Sugar; divided
      3 tb Water
      2    Unsweetened chocolate (1 oz)
    3/4 c  Butter or margarine;
           -softened
      4    Eggs; separated
      1 ts Vanilla extract
  2 1/4 c  Cake flour; sifted
    1/2 ts Baking soda
    1/2 ts Salt
      1 c  Milk
      1 ts Cream of tartar
           Mocha frosting; see recipe
           -for
 
  Recipe by: Southern Living
  Preparation Time: 0:25
  Grease three 9-inch round cakepans, and line with wax
  paper.  Grease and flour wax paper.  Set aside. Combine 1/2
  cup sugar, water, and chocolate in a small saucepan; cook
  over low heat, stirring constantly, until chocolate melts.
  Cool. Cream butter; gradually add remaining 2 cups sugar,
  beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer.  Add egg
  yolks, one at a time, beating after each addition.  Stir in
  vanilla and chocolate mixture.
  Combine flour, soda, and salt; add to creamed mixture
  alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour
  mixture.  Mix after each addition. Beat egg whites until
  frothy; add cream of tartar, and beat until stiff peaks
  form.  Gently fold into batter. Pour batter into prepared
  cakepans.  Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or
  until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
  Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans, and let cool
  completely on wire racks. Spread Mocha Frosting between
  layers and on top and sides of cake.  Yield: one 3-layer
  cake.
 
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