{"id":872,"date":"2025-11-03T20:23:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/?p=872"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:44:26","slug":"double-chocolate-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/2025\/11\/03\/double-chocolate-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CAKE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/chocolate-cake-15-square-500x500-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-874\" style=\"width:654px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/chocolate-cake-15-square-500x500-1.webp 500w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/chocolate-cake-15-square-500x500-1-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/11\/chocolate-cake-15-square-500x500-1-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you love a good &#8220;ooey gooey&#8221; chocolate cake, (and who doesn&#8217;t) This made from scratch recipe will definitely fill that requirement. It is even better served a day later after being refrigerated over night. I have been making it for more years than I care to remember.<br>Cook&#8217;s note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-957c633b6782b0324167aedc51f303af\"><strong>The fact that it has three layers, makes it a little harder to manage and you may end up with a leaning tower of\u2026.not pizza\u2026chocolate goodness!<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-d6f8b2c515d460979db106c705878955\"><strong>CAKE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ingredients: (the two amounts of sugar and buttermilk are separated so they can be used in different steps.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 1\/2 cups sifted cake flour<br>1 1\/2 tsp baking powder<br>1 tsp baking soda<br>1 tsp salt<br>4 oz unsweetened chocolate<br>1\/2 cup sugar<br>1\/2 cup buttermilk<br>3\/4 cup shortening<br>1 1\/2 cups sugar<br>3 eggs<br>1 tsp vanilla<br>1 1\/4 cups buttermilk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructions:<br>Sift together flour, baking powder, soda and salt. Melt chocolate in double boiler. Add 1\/2 cup sugar and 1\/2 cup buttermilk. Stir until blended. Cool<br>In large bowl, work shortening with a spoon until soft. Gradually add while beating, 1 1\/2 cups sugar. Beat until light. Add eggs one at a time. beating well after each egg. Beat until light and fluffy.<br>Add 1\/4 of the flour mixture, and mix thoroughly. Add chocolate mixture and vanilla. Blend well. Add remaining flour alternating with 1 1\/4 cups buttermilk; Beat just until smooth after each addition.<br>Spoon batter into three greased and paper lined 9 inch layer pans. Bake at 350\u00b0 for 30 minutes.<br>Cool and frost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>FROSTING (Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 cup butter or margarine<br>1\/2 tsp salt<br>2 pounds confectioners sugar<br>4 ounces unsweetened chocolate<br>2 tsp vanilla<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work shortening until soft. Add other ingredients and beat until light and fluffy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frost and enjoy!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you love a good &#8220;ooey gooey&#8221; chocolate cake, (and who doesn&#8217;t) This made from scratch recipe will definitely fill that requirement. It is even better served a day later after being refrigerated over night. I have been making it for more years than I care to remember.Cook&#8217;s note: The fact that it has three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/veroskitchen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}