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| Starlight Double-Delight Cake |
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| Category: Cakes |
Kitchen of: Joyce Brooks |
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| Ingredients: |
| 6 | oz | Cream Cheese (2 3 oz pkgs) |
| 3/4 | cups | Shortening, separated |
| 1/2 | tsp | Vanilla |
| 1/2 | tsp | Peppermint Extract |
| 6 | cups | Confectioner's Sugar, sifted and separated |
| 1/4 | cups | Hot Water |
| 4 | oz | Chocolate, melted (4 squares) |
| 2 1/4 | cups | Pillsbury's Flour, sifted |
| 1 1/2 | tsp | Baking Soda |
| 1 | tsp | Salt |
| 3 | | Eggs |
| 3/4 | cups | Milk |
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| Instructions: |
| 1. | Cream together cream cheese, 1/2 c. shortening, vanilla and peppermint extract until fluffy. |
| 2. | Blend half of the sugar into the creamed cheese mixture. |
| 3. | Add hot water alternately with balance of sugar. |
| 4. | Blend in melted chocolate squares. |
| 5. | Set aside 1/2 of this mixture as frosting. |
| 6. | Sift together flour, soda and salt. |
| 7. | Combine remaining shortening (1/4 c) and remaining choc-frosting mixture; mix thoroughly. |
| 8. | Blend in 3 eggs, one at a time. Beat 1 minute. |
| 9. | Add milk alternately with sifted dry ingredients to creamed mixture, beginning and ending with dry i |
| 10. | Pour into 2 - 9 inch layer pans. |
| 11. | Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes. |
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| Recipe submitted 8/18/2005 |
