by dymnyno
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2 cups flour
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2 teaspoons baking powder
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2 cups sugar
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1/2 cup butter
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3 oz bittersweet chocolate, melted
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2 teaspoons vanilla
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1 1/2 cups walnuts
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2 eggs
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1 1/2 cups milk
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Cream butter and sugar.
Ask the hotline about this step!Add beaten eggs
Ask the hotline about this step!Add melted chocolate
Ask the hotline about this step!Add all ingrediants alternately with milk.
Ask the hotline about this step!Fold in coarsely chopped nuts. After all ingredients are added and mixed , pour into two cake pans.
Ask the hotline about this step!Bake for 45 min or until a toothpick comes clean. Bake at 350 degrees.
Ask the hotline about this step!Chocolate frosting: 2/3 cup melted butter, 2 cups powdered sugar, 4 tbs. powdered chocolate, 4 tbs black coffee. Cook over low heat and cool and then frost.
Ask the hotline about this step!.When cakes are cool frost the cake. Put a lot on the first layer, add the second and then frost the second layer , letting the frosting drip over the sides.
Ask the hotline about this step!this looks tasty...hate to ruin your family myth but recently read this article when looking for red velvet recipe and it debunks this story, which many family's apparently have claimed to be theirs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/dining/14velv.html?scp=5&sq=red+velvet+cake&st=nyt
I think it's amazing that your great aunt actually got the recipe from the Waldorf. I have to try it, and I will let you know how it came out.
Remember that this is a "family" story...it happened about 75 years ago...$100.00 was an exorbitant amount of money!
Andrew is an artisan chocolatier and the owner of Garrison Confections Gourmet Chocolate Shop.
Well...I did call it an urban myth. This is not a red velvet cake, however. I have heard this particular (my) story since I was a child ...and that was a long, long time ago!