Semi-sweet Chocolate Cake

What irony that sinners consider the greatest problem they face in this world to be the problem of pain. The ultimate insult against God is that man thinks he has a problem of pain. Man, who deserves to be plunged into hell at this moment, and is indescribably fortunate that he is breathing normally, complains about unhappiness. Instead of falling on his knees in the profoundest possible gratitude that God holds back His wrath and infinite fury, the sinner shakes his fist in heaven’s face and complains against what he calls “pain.” When he receives his due, he will look back on his present condition as paradisiacal. What he now calls misery, he will then consider exquisite pleasure. The most severe torment anyone has ever known in this life will seem like heaven in comparison with one moment of the full fury of the divine Being.

John Gerstner

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs	Chicago		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

9	oz	Semisweet chocolate pieces
		melted
2 3/4	c	Sifted cake flour
1	T	Baking powder
1/2	t	Baking soda
1/2	t	Salt
3/4	c	Vegatable or all-purpose
		shortening
1	t	Vanilla
1	c	Sugar
4		Eggs, well beaten
2/3	c	Water

INSTRUCTIONS

Prepare 2 9-inch round cake pans; grease bottom of pan only; line with
waxed paper cut to fit bottom; grease waxed paper.  Melt chocolate; set
aside to cool.  Sift together: cake flour, baking powder, baking soda
and salt; set  aside.  Cream together: shortening, and vanilla, until
shortening is  softened. Add sugar gradually, creaming until fluffy.
Add eggs, one  at a time beating thoroughly after each addition. Stir
in cooled  chocolate.  Add water and dry ingredients in fourths, to
creamed mixture. After  each addition, beat only until smooth. Do not
overbeat.  Bake at 325 for 30 to 35 minutes or until cake tests done.
Cool and  remove from pans.  Recipe by: CHICAGO CULINARY ARTS INSTITUTE
1950  Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 581 by
ctlindab@mail1.nai.net on Jan 23, 1998

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 3665 Calories From Fat: 809 Total Fat: 98.8g Cholesterol: 744mg Sodium: 3581.5mg Potassium: 686.4mg Carbohydrates: 661.5g Fiber: 21.5g Sugar: 202g Protein: 66.7g