Old Time Fudge Cake

Cake

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 oz. unsweetened chocolate
• 2/3 cup soft butter
• 1 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups sifted cake flour
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• 1 1/4 tsp. soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 1/4 cup ice water

Directions

Melt chocolate and set aside to cool. Cream butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Blend in cooled chocolate. Sift together flour, soda and salt. Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with ice water, beating well after each addition. Bake in 2 waxed paper-lined, 9 inch round pans at 350 degrees F for 30-35 minutes. Frost with Chocolate Fortune Frosting.

Chocolate Fortune Frosting

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 oz. unsweetened chocolate
• 2 cups sifted powdered sugar
• 3 Tbsp. hot water
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup soft butter
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Directions

Melt chocolate in mixing bowl over hot water. Remove from heat and blend in sugar and water. Beat in egg; add butter and vanilla. Frosting will be thin at this point, so place bowl in ice water and beat until it is of spreading consistency.

By Robin from Washington, IA