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THE PERFEC
THE PERFECT T
CHOCOLATE CAK
CHOCOLATE CAKE E
his is our family’s Christmas Southerners love. It’s delicious
cake, and it is truly perfect with vanilla or peppermint ice
for the special birthdays and cream, too. Make sure you place
holidays in your home, too. It this cake on a special platter or
seems that by the time our Christ- cake stand, perhaps one that
mas dinner rolls around, everyone belonged to your grandmother.
is so exhausted from the festivities
that unless a cake is already made SERVES: 16
PREPARATION TIME: 10 MINUTES
or in progress, it might not be
BAKING TIME: 20 TO 25 MINUTES
served! Well, this cake is a snap to
ASSEMBLY TIME: 15 MINUTES
prepare the day before Christmas,
and you can make the filling a day CAKE:
ahead as well, so all that’s left on Solid vegetable shortening for greasing
Christmas afternoon is to make the pans
Flour for dusting the pans
the satiny choco-
1 package (18.25 ounces) devil’s food
late frosting cake mix with pudding
and assemble 1 cup sour cream
3 ⁄4 cup water
the cake. We
1 ⁄2 cup vegetable oil
serve it alongside ambrosia, that
4 large eggs
wonderful orange compote that 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
