Great Chocolate Cake And Strawberry Shortcake

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Cakes, Chocolate	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Ghirardelli Unsweetened
		Cocoa
2	c	Boiling water
1	c	Melted butter
2 1/2	c	Sugar
4		Eggs
2	t	Vanilla
2 1/3	c	Unsifted cake flour
2	t	Baking soda
1/2	t	Baking powder
1/2	t	Salt
		Additional- for Great
		Strawberry Chocolate
1	c	Heavy whipping cream
2	T	Powdered sugar
1/2	t	Vanilla
		Strawberries
2	oz	Ghirardelli Semi-Sweet
		Chocolate

INSTRUCTIONS

DIRECTIONS: Mix cocoa with boiling water, stirring with wire whip
until smooth. Cool in refrigerator while preparing other ingredients.
In large mixer bowl, beat butter with sugar, eggs, and vanilla on  high
speed 5 minutes. Sift flour with baking soda, baking powder and  salt.
On low speed, add dry ingredients alternately with cocoa and  liquid,
starting and ending with flour. (Do not overbeat.) Divide  batter into
2 round pans (9 x 1 1/2") lined with buttered waxed  paper. Bake at
350-F for 30 to 35 minutes or until cake tests dry  with a toothpick.
Cool in pans for 10 minutes; remove cake and cool  on racks. Use 1
layer of cake for Great Strawberry Chocolate  Shortcake dessert. The
second layer may be frozen for other great  chocolate desserts- or the
2 layers may be frosted together.  For shortcake: Whip cream with
powdered sugar and vanilla. Spread  over top of 1 layer of cake.
Arrange fresh strawberries on top. Melt  chocolate and drizzle over
berries. Chill to firm chocolate. Makes 8  servings.  Source: Recipes
from Ghirardelli Chocolate Company of San Francisco  From: Sallie
Austin  From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at
www.synapse.com/~gemini

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