{"id":962,"date":"2015-09-17T20:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T00:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sn315on.com\/?p=962"},"modified":"2015-09-17T20:26:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T00:26:05","slug":"easy-chocolate-cake-and-frosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southernsunnydays.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/17\/easy-chocolate-cake-and-frosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Chocolate Cake and Frosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I wanted to bring in a thank you to a auto body shop and I decided on cupcakes. You can use this recipe for either. This is a super easy recipe. I did get around 20 cupcakes out of it&#8230;so if you want more, you need to adjust it.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2\u00a0cups \u00a0all-purpose flour<br \/>\n2\u00a0cups sugar<br \/>\n1\u00a0teaspoon baking soda<br \/>\n1\u00a0teaspoon salt<br \/>\n1\/2\u00a0teaspoon baking powder<br \/>\n1\/2\u00a0cup shortening<br \/>\n3\/4\u00a0cup water<br \/>\n3\/4\u00a0cup buttermilk<br \/>\n1\u00a0teaspoon vanilla<br \/>\n4\u00a0oz unsweetened baking chocolate, melted, cooled<br \/>\n2\u00a0eggs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fudge Frosting\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2\u00a0cups sugar<br \/>\n1\/2\u00a0cup shortening<br \/>\n3\u00a0oz unsweetened baking chocolate<br \/>\n2\/3\u00a0cup milk<br \/>\n1\/2\u00a0teaspoon salt<br \/>\n2\u00a0teaspoons vanilla<\/p>\n<p>Directions<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Heat oven to 350\u00b0F. Grease and flour bottom and sides of 1 3x 9-inch pan, two 9-inch round cake pans, or three 8-inch round cake pans. In large bowl, beat all cake ingredients with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high speed 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour into pan(s).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bake rectangle 40 to 45 minutes, rounds 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool rectangle in pan on cooling rack. Cool rounds 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In 2 1\/2-quart saucepan, mix all frosting ingredients except vanilla. Heat to rolling boil, stirring occasionally. Boil 1 minute without stirring. Place saucepan in bowl of ice and water. Beat until frosting is smooth and spreadable; stir in vanilla. Frost rectangle or fill and frost layers with frosting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I wanted to bring in a thank you to a auto body shop and I decided on cupcakes. You can use this recipe for either. This is a super easy recipe. I did get around 20 cupcakes out of it&#8230;so if you want more, you need to adjust it. Ingredients Cake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/southernsunnydays.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/17\/easy-chocolate-cake-and-frosting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Easy Chocolate Cake and Frosting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernsunnydays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernsunnydays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernsunnydays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernsunnydays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernsunnydays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southernsunnydays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernsunnydays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernsunnydays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernsunnydays.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}