Chocolate Cake

CHOCOLATE CAKE (Grandma Sheranian's Recipe, aka Aunt Sharon Prior's recipe)

Ingredients:

4 oz. Baker's semisweet baking chocolate
1/2 cup boiling water
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups cake flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup buttermilk





Directions:

1. Pour boiling water over the baking chocolate. Stir until melted, then let it cool in the fridge.
2. Cream the butter and sugar.
3. Separate all four eggs. Add the yolks to the creamed butter and sugar. Put the egg whites in a separate bowl and set aside.
4. Add the cooled chocolate mixture and vanilla.
5. Sift the cake flour, baking soda and salt together.
6. To the chocolate mixture, add half of the flour mix.
7. Gradually add the cup of buttermilk.
8. Add the rest of the flour mix.
9. In another bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff.
10. Fold the egg whites in the chocolate batter.
11. Pour batter into 3-5 cake tins.
12. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
13. Let cool and assemble/decorate with frosting.

Frosting Recipe
(Double the recipe for this cake)

Ingredients:

1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 lb. powdered sugar
1 cup butter
1/2 tsp vanilla
6 to 7 Tbsp evaporated milk

Directions:

1. Combine ingredients.
2. Add one Tbsp of evaporated milk at a time until you have reached desired consistency).