Ingredients
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1 cup flour
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3/4 cup sugar
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1/3 cup milk
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6 tablespoons butter or 6 tablespoons margarine, softened
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1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
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1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
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1/4 teaspoon salt
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1/4 teaspoon baking soda
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2 eggs
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2 cups milk
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1/4 cup sugar
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3 tablespoons cornstarch
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1/4 teaspoon salt
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2 egg yolks
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1 teaspoon vanilla
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2 ounces bakers semisweet chocolate
Instructions
- To make cake (if you want to buy a pre-made a 9-inch yellow round cake, you can omit steps 1-6) Preheat oven to 375-degrees F.
- Grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan.
- Mix all ingredients (flour-eggs) at low speed until combined, then mix at high speed for 2 minutes at high speed.
- Pour in pan.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until done.
- Cool on rack for at 10 minutes before removing from pan.
- Let cool while making custard filling and chocolate glaze.
- To make filling: Stir all filling ingredients except vanilla (milk-egg yolks) in a 2-quart saucepan over medium-low heat.
- Cook until filling thickens and boils (20 minutes).
- Boil one minute then stir in vanilla.
- Remove from heat.
- Refrigerate 30 minutes--cool but not completely set.
- Make glaze while filling is cooling.
- To make glaze: Melt chocolate and butter over low heat (or heat in microvave).
- Remove from heat.
- Beat in sugar an milk with whisk until smooth.
- To assemble cake: Split cut in half horizontally (you now have two thin 9-inch layers).
- Place one layer cut side up on plate.
- Cover with custard filling.
- Place second layer (cut side down) over filling.
- Coat top of cake with chocolate glaze.