Eggless Chocolate Cake

By ckerndt

Ingredients

• 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
• 1 c milk
• 1 3/4 c cake flour
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 1 c sugar
• 1/3 c shortening (or butter)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Combine chocolate and milk in top of double boiler and cook over rapidly boiling water 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Blend with rotary egg beater; cool.

Sift flour once, measure, add soda, salt, and sugar, and sift together three times. Cream shortening; add flour, vanilla, and chocolate mixture and stir until all flour is dampened. Then beat vigorously 1 minute.

Bake in 2 buttered and lightly floured 8-inch layer pans 20-25 minutes, or until sharp knife inserted in cake comes out clean.

Cool in pans 5 minutes, then on rack; but be careful handling the layers--they are fragile! Spread with Cocoa mile-a-minute frosting.