Geegee's Chocolate cake Recipe

Today is Bobby's birthday.  He likes chocolate cake with seven minute icing.  Mom always made this at Christmas time or anytime she could find a reason to cook chocolate cake.  Her favorite chocolate cake recipe came off the back of the Hersey Cocoa can.  Below is the Hersey Cocoa chocolate cake and Seven minute icing recipe.

Hersey's Cocoa Cake 

·         2 cups sugar

·         1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour

·         3/4 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa

·         1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder

·         1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda

·         1 teaspoon salt

·         2 eggs

·         1 cup milk

·         1/2 cup vegetable oil

·         2 teaspoons vanilla extract

·         1 cup boiling water

Directions

1.      1 Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans. 

2.      2 Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans. 

3.      3 Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.  

Seven Minute Icing

Ingredients

• 2 cups white sugar
• 3 egg whites
• 3 tablespoons light corn syrup
• 3 tablespoons cold water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. In the top of a double boiler, combine the sugar, egg whites, corn syrup, water and vanilla. Place over boiling water and beat with an electric mixer on high speed for 7 minutes, or until frosting forms peaks when beaters are raised. Remove from heat. Use immediately to frost a cooled cake.  It make take longer than seven minutes if it is a cloudy day.  Moisture in the air prevents the icing for thickening. 

These two recipes make a really good cake.