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Independence Day Chocolate Cake

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Independence Day Chocolate Cake recipe

 

Yield

16 servings

Prep

40 min

Cook

30 min

Ready

3 hrs

Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
½ cup cocoa powder
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½ cup water
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cup vegetable shortening
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1 ½ cups sugar
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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2 large eggs
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2 cups all-purpose flour
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1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
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½ teaspoon salt
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1 ⅓ cups buttermilk
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16 ounces vanilla frosting
canned, ready to spread
food coloring
blue
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2 cups strawberries
fresh, cut into pieces
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Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
118 ml cocoa powder
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118 ml water
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158 ml vegetable shortening
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355 ml sugar
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5 ml vanilla extract
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2 large eggs
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473 ml all-purpose flour
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7.5 ml baking soda
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2.5 ml salt
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315 ml buttermilk
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462.4 ml/g vanilla frosting
canned, ready to spread
1 x food coloring
blue
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473 ml strawberries
fresh, cut into pieces
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Directions

Heat oven to 350℉ (180℃). Grease and flour 15 1/2x10 1/2x1inch jelly roll pan.

In small bowl, stir together cocoa and water until smooth. In large bowl, beat shortening, sugar, vanilla and eggs.

Stir together flour, baking soda and salt; add alternately with buttermilk to shortening mixture. Stir in cocoa mixture. Spread batter into prepared pan.

Bake 28 to 30 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack.

Remove about ¾ cup frosting; add food color to ½ cup frosting to tint desired shade of blue. Set aside the blue frosting and about ¼ cup vanilla frosting.

Spread remaining vanilla frosting over top of cake. Spread blue frosting in upper left corner. Pipe stars in blue field with reserved ¼ cup vanilla frosting.

Shortly before serving, place strawberries in seven rows to represent red stripes of flag.

Note:

To sour milk: Use 2 teaspoons white vinegar plus milk to equal ⅔ cup



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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 100g (3.5 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 27020% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 6g 9%
Saturated Fat 1g 7%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 27mg 9%
Sodium 208mg 9%
Total Carbohydrate 17g 17%
Dietary Fiber 1g 5%
Sugars g
Protein 7g
Vitamin A 1% Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 3% Iron 7%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
 

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