Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Cake

Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Cake

Recipe from Hershey's Kitchen's

2 Cups Sugar
1-3/4 Cup All-Purpose Flour
3/4 Cup Hershey's Cocoa
1-1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1-1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Teaspoon Salt
2 Eggs
1 Cup Milk
1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil
2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1 Cup Boiling Water

Frosting:
1/2 Cup (1 Stick) Butter, melted
2/3 Cup Hershey's Cocoa
3 Cups Powdered Sugar
1/3 Cup Milk
1 Teaspoon Vanilla

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare two 9-inch round baking pans. Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer for 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (the batter will be very thin). Pour the batter into your prepared pans.

Bake 30-35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.

Meanwhile, make the frosting: Stir melted butter into cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Add a small amount of additional milk, if necessary. Stir in vanilla (about 2 cups frosting).

Frost cake when completely cooled as desired.

This cake is definitely for the chocolate lover's amongst us! I made this for my husband for Valentine's Day, as chocolate cake is one of the only "sweet things" he will eat. It was absolutely delicious and extremely moist, although I would suggest a lesser amount of cocoa for the frosting, as it was just a bit too rich for our taste here at the Worley household. But boy, was this good! Make sure you serve you dust the pans with flour before pouring the batter in, and be sure to serve it at room temperature, of the frosting tastes more like fudge than frosting!