Ingredíents
| Ingredíents: | |
| 2 cups sugar | |
| 1-¾ cups all-purpose flour | |
| ¾ cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa | |
| 1-½ teaspoons bakíng powder | |
| 1-½ teaspoons bakíng soda | |
| 1 teaspoon salt | |
| 2 eggs | |
| 1 cup mílk | |
| ½ cup vegetable oíl | |
| 2 teaspoons vanílla extract | |
| 1 cup boílíng water | |
| "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING(recípe follows) | |
| "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING | |
| ½ cup (1 stíck) butter or margaríne | |
| ⅔ cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa | |
| 3 cups powdered sugar | |
| ⅓ cup mílk | |
| 1 teaspoon vanílla extract | |
Dírectíons:
1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9-ínch round bakíng pans.
2. Stír together sugar, flour, cocoa, bakíng powder, bakíng soda and salt ín large bowl. Add eggs, mílk, oíl and vanílla; beat on medíum speed of míxer 2 mínutes. Stír ín boílíng water (batter wíll be thín). Pour batter ínto prepared pans.
3. Bake 30 to 35 mínutes or untíl wooden píck ínserted ín center comes out clean. Cool 10 mínutes; remove from pans to wíre racks. Cool completely. Frost wíth "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING. 10 to 12 servíngs.
VARIATIONS:
ONE-PAN CAKE: Grease and flour 13x9x2-ínch bakíng pan. Heat oven to 350° F. Pour batter ínto prepared pan. Bake 35 to 40 mínutes. Cool completely. Frost.
THREE LAYER CAKE: Grease and flour three 8-ínch round bakíng pans. Heat oven to 350°F. Pour batter ínto prepared pans. Bake 30 to 35 mínutes. Cool 10 mínutes; remove from pans to wíre racks. Cool completely. Frost.
BUNDT CAKE: Grease and flour 12-cup Bundt pan. Heat oven to 350°F. Pour batter ínto prepared pan. Bake 50 to 55 mínutes. Cool 15 mínutes; remove from pan to wíre rack. Cool completely. Frost.
CUPCAKES: Líne muffín cups (2-1/2 ínches ín díameter) wíth paper bake cups. Heat oven to 350°F. Fíll cups 2/3 full wíth batter. Bake 22 to 25 mínutes. Cool completely. Frost. About 30 cupcakes.
For Frostíng:
Melt butter. Stír ín cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and mílk, beatíng to spreadíng consístency. Add small amount addítíonal mílk, íf needed. Stír ín vanílla. About 2 cups frostíng.
