Light Chocolate Cake

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Title: Light Chocolate Cake
Categories: Cakes
Yield: 10 servings

2 1/2 c Sugar; divided
3 tb Water
2 Unsweetened chocolate (1 oz)
3/4 c Butter or margarine;
-softened
4 Eggs; separated
1 ts Vanilla extract
2 1/4 c Cake flour; sifted
1/2 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt
1 c Milk
1 ts Cream of tartar
Mocha frosting; see recipe
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Recipe by: Southern Living
Preparation Time: 0:25
Grease three 9-inch round cakepans, and line with wax
paper. Grease and flour wax paper. Set aside. Combine 1/2
cup sugar, water, and chocolate in a small saucepan; cook
over low heat, stirring constantly, until chocolate melts.
Cool. Cream butter; gradually add remaining 2 cups sugar,
beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer. Add egg
yolks, one at a time, beating after each addition. Stir in
vanilla and chocolate mixture.
Combine flour, soda, and salt; add to creamed mixture
alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour
mixture. Mix after each addition. Beat egg whites until
frothy; add cream of tartar, and beat until stiff peaks
form. Gently fold into batter. Pour batter into prepared
cakepans. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or
until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans, and let cool
completely on wire racks. Spread Mocha Frosting between
layers and on top and sides of cake. Yield: one 3-layer
cake.

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