Simple Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake (Serve Hot with Glaze Recipe)

​My favorite dessert is cake.  I will choose it above, candy, cookies, ice cream or pie.  When other delights are easy to walk away from cake has my number.   I am a cake snob.  When baking,  I will invest a little time for beauty; taste is everything, and my cakes and frosting's will caress the taste buds.    Calories just aren't worth it if ingredients aren't from scratch.  If I'm going to indulge, I want the real thing.  NO fakes, NO additives,  
 No Boxes!

​ Bake 350 degrees

Ingredients
3/4 cup softened butter
1 2/3 cups sugar
3 eggs (room temperature if you have time)
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
2/3 cups cocoa
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 1/3 cups water

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Directions

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add eggs and vanilla.
Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, salt and add alternatively with water mix on high for 3 min. Pour into greased cake pans Bake 350 degrees
11x13 pan 30- 35 minutes. 
2 round cake pans  25-30 min.
3 round cake pans 20-25 min.

For high speed serve warm with glazed frosting
soft butter carefully in a microwave
cream butter and sugar, add other ingredients mix well
bake as directed
poke with a fork immediately from oven, drizzle glaze over cake
serve warm

Glaze recipe

2 cups powder sugar
1/4 clear or regular vanilla
1/4 cup milk/half and half
mix until the desired consistency 

I add a raw egg which cooks on a hot cake; this makes your glaze shiny and brings richness. For extra white glaze omit yolk.

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