Sunday night chocolate cake

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       Title: Sunday Night Chocolate Cake
  Categories: Cheesecakes, Chocolate
       Yield: 12 servings
  
   1 1/2 c  Butter; at room temp
   1 1/3 c  Sugar
       3    Eggs; at room temp
       2 c  White lily or cake flour
            Plus 2 tb
       2 ts Baking powder
     1/2 ts Salt
     3/4 c  Milk
       1 ts Vanilla
            Chocolate icing
            See recipe
  
   Cream the butter until light and add the sugar slowly. One
   by one, add the eggs, beating well after each addition,
   until the whole mixture is fluffy.
   Sift the dry ingredients together and add to the batter in
   3 parts alternating with the milk added in 2 parts. Stir in
   the vanilla extract and turn into the prepared pans. Bake
   in a 350 oven for 25 minutes, until the layers are golden
   adn pull away from the edges of the pans. Let cool about 10
   minutes before turning out onto a rack.
   
   To ice, place a cooled layer on a serving plate. Cover with
   about one fifth of the Chocolate Icing. Place the second
   layer on top and spread it with another one fifth of the
   icing. Top with the third layer and use the remaining icing
   to cover the top and sides. if the icing does not spread
   evenly or smoothly, dip the blade of the icing knife in
   warm water as you ice the cake.
   SOURCE Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie (pg. 304)
  
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