How to Make Appetizing Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake

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Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake. After many requests for this recipe tutorial, I am finally giving in! Old Fashioned Chocolate Mayonnaise cake is like one of those urban myths of. This old fashioned chocolate cake is made even better by a tangy buttermilk pecan icing.

Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake You don't want to miss this classic dessert! It's simple buttercream made with a lot of melted chocolate, not cocoa, and it turned out incredibly silky and smooth. Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake: A note on pan size. You can have Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake

  1. You need of Old Fashion Chocolate Frosting.
  2. Prepare 2 packages of 6 oz Semisweet Chocolate Pieces [or 2 cups].
  3. Prepare 1/4 cup of Shortening.
  4. You need 3 cup of Confectioners' Sugar.
  5. Prepare 1/2 cup of Whole Milk.
  6. It's of Old Fashion Chocolate Cake.
  7. It's 2 cup of Cake Flour.
  8. You need 1 3/4 cup of Sugar.
  9. It's 3/4 cup of Powdered Cocoa.
  10. It's 1 1/4 cup of Whole Milk.
  11. You need 3/4 cup of Shortening.
  12. It's 3 of Fresh Eggs.
  13. You need 1 1/4 tsp of Baking Soda.
  14. You need 1 tsp of Salt.
  15. Prepare 1 tsp of Vanilla Extract.
  16. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Baking Powder.
  17. You need of Cake Garnish.
  18. It's 1 of 12 oz Bag Pecan Slivers.

Halvah apple pie apple pie brownie donut cheesecake. Old Fashioned Cocoa Pound Cake. "Light and fluffy chocolate cocoa pound cake recipe that tastes like a mug of old fashioned hot chocolate! Drizzle with a white chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate glaze and topped with chocolate covered strawberries". Old Fashion Chocolate Cake from Sweet Lady Jane shipped nationwide on Goldbelly.

Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake step by step

  1. OLD FASHION CHOCOLATE FROSTING DIRECTIONS In a double boiler, over hot, not boiling water, gently melt the chocolate and the shortening together. Add to that your milk and sugar and mix again. Take from heat and set to the side. Hand mix or beat on low with electric mixer until everything is incorporated. Usually about 3 minutes. Set to the side..
  2. Preheat oven to 350°..
  3. OLD FASHION CHOCOLATE CAKE DIRECTIONS Add everything in this section together with an electric beater until all ingredients are fully incorporated. Usually about 5 minutes..
  4. Evenly pour cake batter into two 9" nonstick round cake pans. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Insert a toothpick into the center of your cakes. If the toothpick comes out clean, your cake is done. If not, bake a few minutes longer. Allow cakes to cool..
  5. On your most lopsided cake top, gently shave off enough of the top to allow the other to sit evenly and stable upon it..
  6. On the plate you intend to serve your cake upon, place the bottom tier down and gently smear some frosting on the top you've just shaved. Place the top tier on it and frost the second top tier as well. Frost the sides evenly and fill in the gap between the two tiers..
  7. Gather a handful of pecan slivers and gently, but firmly, pack them on to the sides of your cake. Let the excess pecans fall to the bottom of your serving tray..
  8. Clean up the bottom of your serving tray of any excess pecan slivers or chocolate frosting..
  9. Serve with ice cold whole milk..

Dark chocolate cake is filled with French chocolate buttercream and frosted with Belgian chocolate ganache to create Sweet Lady Jane's old fashioned chocolate cake. This is a real old-fashioned American chocolate layer cake. I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I didn't know who Nigella Lawson was. Someone sent me a link to a video of her making this chocolate cake on You Tube. Brush with shortening, line with parchment and flour.