Montana Mountain Cake

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• fine dry breadcrumb
• 1 2/3 cups cake flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup butter (not tub or spread product) or 3/4 cup margarine, softened (not tub or spread product)
• 2 1/4 cups granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 large eggs
• 3 ounces unsweetened chocolate squares, melted
• 1 1/2 cups water (icy cold)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375°f.
• 2 grease three 8" layer cake pans; dust lightly with bread crumbs.
• 3 sift dry ingredients together.
• 4 cream butter and sugar; add vanilla.
• 5 beat in eggs, one at a time, until well blended.
• 6 beat in chocolate.
• 7 add water alternatively with dry ingredients.
• 8 divide batter into cake pans, spread to level, then push batter up the sides a little bit leaving a slight concavity in the center.
• 9 bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until cake just begins to pull away from the sides of the pan.
• 10 cool 5 minutes in the pan, then invert and cool completely on cooling racks.
• 11 if necessary for even frosting, cut the tops level.
• 12 frost layers, staking them, and sides with your favorite frosting (i like coffee flavored seafoam frosting).
• 13 with your spatula, quickly pull frosting up in peaks all over the cake.