{"id":34,"date":"2012-05-23T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deanasimmons.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/23\/best-ever-chocolate-cake"},"modified":"2012-05-23T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:03:00","slug":"best-ever-chocolate-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Best-Ever Chocolate Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients<br \/>Cake<br \/>2 cups all-purpose flour<br \/>1\/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder<br \/>1 1\/2 teaspoons baking soda<br \/>1\/4 teaspoon salt<br \/>1\/2 cup vegetable shortening<br \/>1 cup milk<br \/>1\/2 cup cold black coffee<br \/>1 teaspoon vanilla extract<br \/>2 large eggs<\/p>\n<p>Frosting<br \/>1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder<br \/>1\/2 cup softened butter<br \/>1\/2 cup light corn syrup<br \/>1\/2 teaspoon vanilla extract<br \/>1\/4 teaspoon salt<br \/>1\/4 cup warm water<br \/>4 cups confectioners&#8217; sugar<br \/>1 cup chopped walnuts, divided<\/p>\n<p>Step-by-step<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 9-inch cake pans. In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.<\/li>\n<li>Beat in the shortening with an electric mixer on low speed. Beat in milk, coffee and vanilla until combined. Increase speed to high and beat for 2 minutes. Add the eggs; beat for 2 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Pour the batter into the prepared pans. Back the cakes in the middle of the oven until a toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean, 30-35 minutes. Cool the cakes in the pans for 5 minutes, then turn the cakes onto wire racks to cool completely.<\/li>\n<li>For the frosting, combine the cocoa powder, butter, corn syrup, vanilla and salt in a large bowl. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add the warm water; mix well. Beat in the confectioners&#8217; sugar in two batches. Beat until smooth<\/li>\n<li>Place one layer top side down on a large, flat plate. Spread with 1 cup of the frosting; sprinkle with 2\/3 cup of walnuts. Top with the remaining cake layer, top side up. Frost the top and sides with the remaining frosting, swirling with a small spatula. Garish with remaining walnuts<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IngredientsCake2 cups all-purpose flour1\/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder1 1\/2 teaspoons baking soda1\/4 teaspoon salt1\/2 cup vegetable shortening1 cup milk1\/2 cup cold black coffee1 teaspoon vanilla&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7yoUc-y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}