Recipe#4052

Title: Chocolate Romance

Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 From: rubyd@wam.umd.edu (teresa marie Cannon) 
 Subject: CHOCOLATE ROMANCE CAKE 
 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 14:58:25 +0000 
 Message-ID: <9411232055.ay01924@post.demon.co.uk> 

2 c. cake flour or 1-3/4 c. all purpose flour, unsifted
 1 t. baking soda
 4 T. powdered buttermilk
 9 T. cocoa powder
 1 t. vanilla
 1-1/2 c. sugar
 1 t. salt
 1 t. cinnamon
 1 t. ground cloves
 1 t. allspice
 1/2 c + 3 T. mayonnaise or shortening
 2 eggs
 1c. sour cream
 Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 or 3 8-inch layer
 pans or 1 9x12x2 cake pan. Mix all dry ingredients together. Blend
 in mayonnaise, eggs, vanilla and 1/2 of sour cream. Beat 2 minutes
 at medium speed with mixer or 300 strokes by hand. Add remaining
 sour cream and beat 2 minutes longer. Pour into pans. Bake 25 to
 35 minutes until toothpick comes out clean. Cool on rack a few
 minutes before removing from pan. When completely cool, frost cake.
 FROSTING
 8 oz. cream cheese
 1 stick butter
 1 box confectioners sugar
 a dash or two of cinnamon (optional)
 1/4 c. cocoa powder
 1 t. vanilla
 Cream butter and cream cheese together until fluffy, gradually add
 dry ingredients one at a time until all are well blended. Add
 vanilla and blend well.