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2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa or
HERSHEY'S SPECIAL DARK Cocoa
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup cold water
3 eggs, slightly beaten
1-1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Easy Orange Frosting Recipe ~ recipe follows
Chocolate Drizzle Recipe ~ recipe follows
Preheat your oven. Grease cake pan up the sides and over the bottom or spray cake pan with cooking spray.
In a small bowl, beat the eggs slightly, set aside. In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa, butter, cold water, eggs, baking powder, baking soda and vanilla in large bowl; beat on medium for 3 minutes. Pour batter into prepared cake pan.
Bake for the allotted time or until wooden pick inserted in center of the cake comes out clean. Cool chocolate cake completely in the pan on wire rack. Frost with Orange Frosting, then Drizzle with chocolate Drizzle.
EASY ORANGE FROSTING:
Whisk together;
1 - 16 ounce container vanilla ready-to-spread frosting,
1/2 teaspoon orange extract
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated orange peel
2 drops each of red and yellow food color to make a bright orange colored frosting.
Chocolate Drizzle Recipe:
Place 1/4 cup HERSHEY'S SPECIAL DARK Chocolate Chips or HERSHEY'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips and 1-1/2 teaspoons crisco shortening (do not use margarine spread, butter or oil) in small microwave-safe bowl. Set microwave at medium heat that's - 50% for 15 to 30 seconds; stir chocolate chips. If necessary, microwave chocolate chips for additional 10 seconds at a time, stirring chips after each heating, just until chips are melted and chocolate mixture is nice and smooth.
Spoon chocolate drizzle into a pastry bag or a small zip lock bag cutting a small hole in the corner, then squeeze the bag to drizzle. Or you can use a spoon to drizzle the chocolate.
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