Summer celebration chocolate cake

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       Title: Summer Celebration Chocolate Cake
  Categories: Cheesecakes, Chocolate
       Yield: 1 servings
  
   1 3/4 c  Cake flour
       1 c  Sugar
     1/3 c  Hershey's cocoa
       1 ts Baking powder
       1 ts Baking soda
     1/2 ts Salt
     1/2 c  Buttermilk
     1/4 c  Vegetable oil
     1/4 c  Applesauce
       1 ts Vanilla extract
     3/4 c  Hot water
            Quick chocolate frosting:
            =(recipe follows)
  
   Recipe by: www.hersheys.com
   1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray 13x9x2-inch baking
   pan with vegetable cooking spray.
    2. In large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, cocoa,
   baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add buttermilk, oil,
   applesauce and vanilla, then water. Beat on medium speed of
   electric mixer until well blended.
    3. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 25 to 28 minutes or
   until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool
   completely in pan on wire rack. Frost with QUICK CHOCOLATE
   FROSTING. 18 servings.
   
   QUICK CHOCOLATE FROSTING:
   2 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened,  1-3/4 cups
   powdered sugar,  3 tablespoons HERSHEY'S Cocoa,  2 to 3
   tablespoons boiling water,  1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract.
   In medium bowl, beat butter. Gradually add powdered sugar
   and cocoa alternately with water and vanilla, beating until
   smooth of and desired consistency. About 3/4 cup frosting.
   JmHershey's is a registered trademark of Hershey Foods
   Corporation. Recipe may be reprinted courtesy of the
   Hershey Kitchens.
  
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