Brown Sugar Chocolate Cake

TinyArtist

  Brown Sugar Chocolate Cake
  Ingredients  

• 2  cup sifted cake flour
• 2  teaspoon  baking powder
• 1/2  teaspoon  baking soda
• 1/2  teaspoon  salt
• 1/2  cup  shortening
• 2  cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 2    eggs
• 1  teaspoon  vanilla
• 4   squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
• 1  cup  milk, plus 2 tablespoons
  

  Directions  

• Set oven for moderate, 350f.
• Grease and flour two 8-inch round cake pans.
• Sift together the first 4 ingredients.
• Cream shortening; add sugar gradually; beat until fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time: beat well after each addition.
• Stir in vanilla and chocolate.
• Add sifted dry ingredients, a little at a time, alternately with milk; stir only enough to blend well.
• Pour into pans.
• Bake 30 minutes or until top springs back when lightly touched with fingertip.
• Cool in pans 5 minutes.
• Remove; cool on a rack; frost.