---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: The Best Chocolate Cake
 Categories: Cheesecakes, Chocolate
      Yield: 12 servings
 
      2 c  Flour
      2 c  Sugar
      1 ts Baking soda
      1 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Salt
      1 c  Butter
      1 c  Water
    1/4 c  Cocoa
      3    Eggs; beaten
    1/2 c  Buttermilk
      1 ts Vanilla
           Cream filling:
    1/4 c  Shortening
    1/4 c  Butter
    1/2 c  Sugar
      1 sm Egg white
      1 ts Vanilla
    1/4 c  Hot milk
           Frosting:
  1 1/2 c  Confectioner's sugar
    3/4 c  Margarine
      1    Egg
      3 tb Light corn syrup
      2 pk Premelted unsweetened
           -chocolate
    1/2 c  Chopped nuts
 
   Heat oven to 350 degrees.  Sift flour, sugar, soda, baking
  powder, and salt.  Melt butter, water and cocoa.  Bring to
  a boil; set aside for a few minutes.  Lightly beat eggs.
  Add buttermilk and vanilla.  Beat all this into flour mix.
  Beat in warm cocoa mixture.  Bake 25 to 30 minutes in 2
  greased and floured cake pans.  Cool.
  
  Make filling:  Cream shortening and butter.  Add sugar and
  beat well.  Add egg white (not beaten) and vanilla and beat
  well again.  Add hot milk 1 T. at a time.  Spread between
  layers.  Make frosting:  Combine all frosting ingredients
  and spread on cake.
 
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