Best chocolate cake

Name: Best chocolate cake
Ingredients: 2 cup all-purpose flour; 2 cup sugar; 1/2 tsp baking powder; 4 oz unsweet chocolate; 2 eggs; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1 tsp salt; 1/2 cup butter; 3/4 cup H2O; 3/4 cup milk; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 Opt: You can add Raspberries, Maraschino cherries or other fruit, but you must add 1 - 2 cups more of flour due to the extra juice from the fruit

12 ingredients

10 steps

Ingredients

2 cup all-purpose flour
2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
4 oz unsweet chocolate
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup H2O
3/4 cup milk
1 tsp baking soda
1 Opt: You can add Raspberries, Maraschino cherries or other fruit, but you must add 1 - 2 cups more of flour due to the extra juice from the fruit

Directions

1

Melt & cool the chocolate & butter.
2

Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
3

Pour into greased pan, bake at 350 for 40 to 45 minutes.
4

Stick a toothpick into the center, if it comes out clean then it is done.
5

Remove carefully onto cooling racks and slow to cool .
6

Place a small dap of you favorite frosting onto your cake plate, place your 1st layer onto the plate and place a generous layer of frosting on top.
7

Then place the top layer on next and frost the entire cake.
8

At this point if you added fruit to your cake you should have reserved some to decorate the top layer with as the photo shows.
9

The frosting for this particular cake was a marshmallow fluff frosting, and my choice of fruit was raspberry.
10

The frosting recipes in my profile is the one I used.