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      Title: CHOCOLATETOWN SPECIAL CAKE
 Categories: Cakes
      Yield: 1 cake

    1/2 c  Hershey's Cocoa; OR...
           -Hershey's European Style
           -Cocoa
    1/2 c  Boiling water
    2/3 c  Shortening
  1 3/4 c  Sugar
      1 ts Vanilla extract
      2    Eggs
  2 1/4 c  All-purpose flour
  1 1/2 ts Baking soda
    1/2 ts Salt
  1 1/3 c  Buttermilk or sour milk*

----------------------------------FROSTING----------------------------------
      6 tb Butter or margarine
           -- softened
  2 2/3 c  Powdered sugar
    1/2 c  Hershey's Cocoa; OR...
           -Hershey's European Style
           -Cocoa
    1/3 c  Milk
      1 ts Vanilla extract

  Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease and flour two 9-inch round
  baking pans. In small bowl, stir together cocoa and water until smooth.
  In large mixer bowl, beat shortening, sugar and vanilla until light and
  fluffy. Add eggs; beat well. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt;
  add to shortening mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating until
  well blended. Add cocoa mixture; beat well. Pour batter into prepared
  pans. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center
  comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool
  completely. Frost with One-Bowl Buttercream Frosting. 8 to 10 servings.

  * To sour milk: Use 4 teaspoons white vinegar plus milk to equal 1-1/3
  cups.

  One-Bowl Buttercream Frosting:

  In small mixer bowl, beat butter. Add powdered sugar and cocoa
  alternately with milk; beat to spreading consistency (additional milk
  may be needed). Blend in vanilla. About 2 cups frosting.

  Hershey's is a registered trademark of Hershey Foods Corporation.
  Recipe may be reprinted courtesy of the Hershey Kitchens.