The Best Chocolate Cake

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Title: The Best Chocolate Cake
Categories: Cheesecakes, Chocolate
Yield: 12 servings

2 c Flour
2 c Sugar
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Salt
1 c Butter
1 c Water
1/4 c Cocoa
3 Eggs; beaten
1/2 c Buttermilk
1 ts Vanilla
Cream filling:
1/4 c Shortening
1/4 c Butter
1/2 c Sugar
1 sm Egg white
1 ts Vanilla
1/4 c Hot milk
Frosting:
1 1/2 c Confectioner's sugar
3/4 c Margarine
1 Egg
3 tb Light corn syrup
2 pk Premelted unsweetened
-chocolate
1/2 c Chopped nuts

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Sift flour, sugar, soda, baking
powder, and salt. Melt butter, water and cocoa. Bring to
a boil; set aside for a few minutes. Lightly beat eggs.
Add buttermilk and vanilla. Beat all this into flour mix.
Beat in warm cocoa mixture. Bake 25 to 30 minutes in 2
greased and floured cake pans. Cool.

Make filling: Cream shortening and butter. Add sugar and
beat well. Add egg white (not beaten) and vanilla and beat
well again. Add hot milk 1 T. at a time. Spread between
layers. Make frosting: Combine all frosting ingredients
and spread on cake.

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