Blue Ribbon Chocolate Cake

🥘 Ingredients

• cake flour 2 cups
• salt ½ tsp
• boiling water ½ cup
• shortening ½ cup
• brown sugar ½ cup
• sour milk or buttermilk 0.67 cup
• baking soda 1 tsp
• baking chocolate 3 sq
• sugar 1 cup
• eggs 2
• vanilla 1 tsp
• 7
• peppermint

1. 1

   cake flour (measured after sifting) salt boiling water shortening brown sugar sour milk or buttermilk baking soda baking chocolate sugar eggs vanilla 7 -Minute frosting peppermint flavoring
2. 2

   Sift dry ingredients 3 times and set aside. Put the chocolate squares in boiling water and stir until melted. Cream the shortening and sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Add melted chocolate. Add flour mixture and milk alternately, beginning and ending with flour. Add vanilla. Put into 2 9"-layers or 1 9x13 pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Frost with 7-Minute frosting with peppermint flavoring.