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cynupstateny

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Making a choc cake. Directions say to mix 2 c boiling water with one cup cocoa and set aside. Mix the rest of the batter up and add the cocoa mix. It's still really hot! Would you wait until lukewarm? I know it will melt the butter!

 
butter is already in with flour, etc.? if it didn't say cool, I would go ahead? help anyone else!!

 
Great, hate it when recipes aren't specific. I have a wonderful chocolate cake that has

water, butter, cocoa brought to a boil. boiling mixture is added to combined dry ingredients and then eggs and buttermilk mix folded in.

boy we did some fast posting there!!

enjoy that cake,
Nan

 
sounds like a Texas sheet cake, but my recipe has me add the butter to the hot mixture to melt.

 
You'll have to let us know how it tastes. I think this would be a good use for my

brandied cherries still languishing in the pantry. I could dry them good, chop up and fold into the whipped cream filling and brush my layers with the brandy cordial from the jar.

 
I made them last cherry season & haven't used any of them. I also have some pineapple in the jar

but that doesn't sound as good with chocolate.

 
I pitted the cherries with chopsticks (would have done more if I had a pitter but I would have

had to order one since we don't have cherry trees here). Mixed about a cup or so per pound of fruit and then added brandy to cover. Stirred every once in a while. I added pineapple to the jar a few times when I had a good one. They taste great and the cordial is nice but they are not very pretty. The booze has leached the color out of the cherries so the liquid is pretty and bright but the cherries are now beige & the pineapple is a weird color from the cherry juice.

 
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