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      Title: Decadent Fudge Cake
 Categories: Cheesecakes
      Yield: 1 servings
 
      1 c  Butter or margarine;
           -softened
  1 1/2 c  Sugar
      4    Eggs
    1/2 ts Baking soda
      1 c  Buttermilk
  1 1/2 c  All-purpose flour
  1 1/2 c  Semisweet chocolate
           -mini-morsels
           = divided
      2    Sweet baking chocolate
           Melted and cooled/4 oz each
    1/3 c  Chocolate syrup
      2 ts Vanilla extract
      4 oz White chocolate; chopped
      2 tb Plus 2 tsps shortening; divi
           -ded
 
  Cream butter in a large mixing bowl; gradually add sugar,
  beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer.  Add
  eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
  Dissolve soda in buttermilk, stirring well.  Add to creamed
  mixture alternately with flour, beginning and ending with
  flour.  Add 1 cup mini-morsels, melted chocolate, chocolate
  syrup, and vanilla, stirring just until blended.  (Do not
  overbeat.)Spoon batter into a heavily greased and floured
  10-inch Bundt pan.  Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour and 25
  to 35 minutes or until cake springs back when touched.
  Invert cake immediately onto a serving plate, and let cool
  completely.
  
  Combine 4 ounces chopped white chocolate and 2 tablespoons
  shortening in top of a double boiler; bring water to a
  boil.  Reduce heat to low; cook until mixture is melted and
  smooth.  Remove from heat.  Drizzle melted white chocolate
  mixture over cooled cake.  Melt remaining 1/2 cup
  mini-morsels and 2 teaspoons shortening in a small saucepan
  over low heat, stirring until smooth.  Remove from heat,
  and let cool; drizzle over white chocolate.  If desired,
  garnish with chocolate and white chocolate leaves.  Yield
  one 10-inch cake.JM. (from Southern Living)
 
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