Death by Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Frosting

From Sarah Houghton

• 3/4 cup baking cocoa


• 1/4 cup butter


• 1/2 cup water


• 1 cup butter


• 2 cups sugar


• 4 eggs, separated


• 1 tsp. vanilla


• 1 cup hot chocolate (ready to drink)


• 2 cups flour


• 1 tsp. baking soda


• 1/2 tsp. salt

Melt first three ingredients in a saucepan and set aside. Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl. Add egg yolks, vanilla, and hot chocolate; mix until smooth. Add cocoa mixture, flour and soda. Beat egg whites and salt to stiff peaks. Fold in. Pour into three greased and floured round cake pans. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Frost with chocolate frosting.



Chocolate Frosting

1/3 cup milk

1/2 cup butter

1/4 cup baking cocoa

3 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Heat milk, butter, and cocoa in a saucepan until it just boils. Beat in powdered sugar. Continue to add powdered sugar until frosting is of desired consistency.