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The September 2005 Recipe of the Month Home Made Old Fashioned Fudge Cake This is the real thing! Homemade and old fashioned, and needing a tall glass of milk and some friends. Thanks, to Mrs. Cynthia Fernley.
Ingredients 4 ounces good quality unsweetened chocolate 1/2 cup milk (set aside for a moment) 1 well beaten egg (set aside for a moment) 2/3 cup sugar (set aside for a moment) 1/2 cup shortening or margarine 1 additional cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 additional eggs 2 cups sifted flour, less 1 Tablespoon 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 2/3 additional cup milk Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Prepare (grease and flour) two round cakepans, preferably 9-inch size or so. Using a double boiler, or carefully in a low microwave, melt the chocolate, 1/2 cup milk, 1 beaten egg, and 2/3 cup sugar and stir to combine well. Stir until well mixed and thickened a bit. Set aside to cool enough to stir in to the batter. Soften shortening or margarine in a good-sized mixing bowl. Add sugar and mix well until fluffy. Add vanilla and remaining eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift dry ingredients together in another bowl, to prepare for final mixing. Now, the tricky part...alternating with the remaining milk, add a bit of the flour mixture, and a bit of milk, until both are eventually melded into the shortening/sugar mixture, mixing until smooth after each addition. Now, slowly add this combined mixture to the chocolate mixture, beating well. Pour into cake pans, and bake for 25 minutes (or until toothpick comes out without liquid batter on it). Cool, then remove from pans, and frost with favorite chocolate or white frosting. Or even dust with confectioner's sugar, or make a glaze out of chocolate chips (almost a 12 ounce bag worth mixed and melted with 6 Tablespoons butter, but this method must be refrigerated).   Call your friends and share. Enjoy!