Easy Fudge Layer Cake

Name: Easy Fudge Layer Cake
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 18
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 158 milliliters packed dark brown sugar; 118 milliliters Dutch process or unsweetened cocoa; 3 larges eggs; 414 milliliters all-purpose flour; 158 milliliters granulated sugar; 1 teaspoons salt; 296 milliliters skim milk; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 79 milliliters vegetable shortening

Need a vegetarian dessert? Easy Fudge Layer Cake could be a super recipe to try. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 161 calories, 3g of protein, and 5g of fat. This recipe serves 18. Head to the store and pick up baking powder, dutch process, vanillan extract, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

Prepare the Chocolate-Cream Cheese Frosting; cover and chill.

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Cream Cheese Frosting

Chocolate

Preheat oven to 35

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Oven

Coat 2 (8-inch) round cake pans with cooking spray; line bottoms of pans with wax paper. Coat wax paper with cooking spray; set pans aside.

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Cooking Spray

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Wax Paper

Combine flour and remaining ingredients in a large bowl; beat at low speed of a mixer 30 seconds or until ingredients are moist. Beat mixture at medium speed 2 minutes or until well-blended.

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All Purpose Flour

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Blender

Bowl

Pour batter into prepared pans. Sharply tap pans once on the counter to remove air bubbles.

Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until cake springs back when touched lightly in center. Cool in pans 5 minutes on a wire rack. Loosen layers from sides of pans using a narrow metal spatula, and turn out onto wire racks. Peel off wax paper, and cool completely.

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Wax Paper

Wire Rack

Oven

Spatula

Place 1 cake layer on a plate, and spread with 1/2 cup Chocolate-Cream Cheese Frosting. Top with remaining cake layer; spread remaining frosting on sides and top of cake. Cover and chill at least 1 hour.

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Cream Cheese Frosting

Chocolate

Frosting