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chocolate commotion cake


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"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse

"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb

"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli

"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child

"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio

"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare

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Chocolate Commotion Cake

Ingredients for cake:
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 and 1/3 cups boilin' water
2 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons bakin' soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup butter, softened
2 and1/3 cups sugar
3 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Ingredients for icin':
8 ounces white chocolate
melted per package directions and cooled to room temperature
3 and 1/4 cups confectioners� sugar
6 ounces cream cheese, softened
5 tablespoons butter, softened
1 and 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice

Instructions for cake:
1) Position racks to divide oven into thirds. Preheat to 350�.
Butter the bottoms of three 8" or 9" round cake pans and then line 'em
with waxed paper.
2) Stir cocoa and boilin' water together 'til smooth. Set aside to cool.
3) Combine flour, bakin' soda and salt in a mixin' bowl.
4) In a separate bowl, beat together the butter, sugar, eggs,
and vanilla extract 'til light and fluffy.
5) Add the cooled cocoa mixture to sugar mixture and beat
'til thoroughly combined.
6) Beat in the combined dry ingredietns, just 'til the batter is blended.
7) Divide batter between prepared pans and smooth with a spatula.
8) Position the cake pans so they're staggered on your oven racks,
then bake for twenty-five to thirty minutes, or 'til a toothpick inserted in the centre of each cake comes out clean.
9) Cool cakes in pans on a wire rack for ten minutes.
10) Gently run a knife around the edges, then turn cakes out onto racks.
11) Removed waxed paper and finish coolin' completely.
12) Make the frostin' by beatin' together all the ingredients
'til light and fluffy.
13) Place one layer on a cake platter, bottom side up.
14) Spread with one third of the frostin', then repeat the process with
the two remainin' layers. Sides of cake are left naked.
15) Garnish as desired with chocolate sprinkes or shaved chocolate.

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