Jack-O-Lantern Chocolate Cake Recipe

Jack-O-Lantern Chocolate Cake Ingredients

2 cups Cake Flour – sifted
1 teaspoons Soda
1/2 teaspoons Salt
1 cup Butter or shortening
1 1/3 cups Brown sugar – firmly packed
3 Eggs – well beaten
4 oz Unsweetened Chocolate – melt
2/3 cups Water

Jack-O-Lantern Chocolate Cake Directions

Sift flour once, measure, add soda -and salt, and sift together three times.
Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy.
Add eggs and beat well; then chocolate and blend.
Add flour, alternately with water, a small amount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth.
Bake in two greased deep 9″ layer pans in 350~ oven for 30 minutes, or until done.
Spread orange tinted frosting between layers, reserving about 1/4 for pumpkin decoration.
Spread chocolate frosting on top and sides of,cake, reserving sinall amount for decorating.
Decorate top of cake with pumpkin of orange tinted frosting.
Outline eyes, nose, and mouth of jack-o’-lantern- face with chocolate frosting, using pastry tube or or a small knife.
Melted chocolate may be used for outlining jack-o’-lantern faces.
This is a great Halloween recipe kids’ love!