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Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Old- fashioned Chocolate Cake, that just melt in your mouth. Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake Recipe from HERSHEY'S Kitchens. This old fashioned chocolate cake is made even better by a tangy buttermilk pecan icing.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have mike's old fashion chocolate cake using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake:

1. Get Old Fashion Chocolate Frosting
2. Take 2 packages 6 oz Semisweet Chocolate Pieces [or 2 cups]
3. Take 1/4 cup Shortening
4. Get 3 cup Confectioners' Sugar
5. Make ready 1/2 cup Whole Milk
6. Take Old Fashion Chocolate Cake
7. Make ready 2 cup Cake Flour
8. Make ready 1 3/4 cup Sugar
9. Make ready 3/4 cup Powdered Cocoa
10. Get 1 1/4 cup Whole Milk
11. Take 3/4 cup Shortening
12. Make ready 3 Fresh Eggs
13. Get 1 1/4 tsp Baking Soda
14. Make ready 1 tsp Salt
15. Prepare 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
16. Make ready 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
17. Prepare Cake Garnish
18. Get 1 12 oz Bag Pecan Slivers

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Steps to make Mike's Old Fashion Chocolate Cake:

1. OLD FASHION CHOCOLATE FROSTING DIRECTIONS In a double boiler, over hot, not boiling water, gently melt the chocolate and the shortening together. Add to that your milk and sugar and mix again. Take from heat and set to the side. Hand mix or beat on low with electric mixer until everything is incorporated. Usually about 3 minutes. Set to the side.
2. Preheat oven to 350°.
3. OLD FASHION CHOCOLATE CAKE DIRECTIONS Add everything in this section together with an electric beater until all ingredients are fully incorporated. Usually about 5 minutes.
4. Evenly pour cake batter into two 9" nonstick round cake pans. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Insert a toothpick into the center of your cakes. If the toothpick comes out clean, your cake is done. If not, bake a few minutes longer. Allow cakes to cool.
5. On your most lopsided cake top, gently shave off enough of the top to allow the other to sit evenly and stable upon it.
6. On the plate you intend to serve your cake upon, place the bottom tier down and gently smear some frosting on the top you've just shaved. Place the top tier on it and frost the second top tier as well. Frost the sides evenly and fill in the gap between the two tiers.
7. Gather a handful of pecan slivers and gently, but firmly, pack them on to the sides of your cake. Let the excess pecans fall to the bottom of your serving tray.
8. Clean up the bottom of your serving tray of any excess pecan slivers or chocolate frosting.
9. Serve with ice cold whole milk.

Lots of cake baking tips included. This is just a great, basic, perfectly chocolaty, moist, delicious old-fashioned cake. I say we just get right to it, don't you? Oh, one tip first: When I'm embarking on a big project like this (not that a cake is a huge project. Old-fashioned chocolate buttermilk cupcakes topped with a generous swirl of homemade Suffice to say there's no shortage of chocolate around these parts!

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