Savannah Chocolate Cake

I'm just gathering up the last of the couple of things that I'm going to need to finish off my Savannah chocolate cake with a hot fudge sauce

Now I'm going to start by putting our brown sugar in our mixer, and I'm going to use about a half a cup of shortening, not butter

So I'm going to cream those together. All right, now I'm going to add a little buttermilk, and you'll see I keep playing with the speed

on my mixer, depending on the appropriate time for high speed versus low speed

All right, I've got some chocolate that I've melted, so now I'm going to just add that

to the cake mixture, and I'm using an unsweet chocolate for the cake batter

All right, and while that's mixing, I'm going to take all-purpose flour and a little salt

and bacon powder, and sift those together real quick. And now I'm going to add my eggs one at a time

And the last one All right now I going to lower that speed on the mixer and I going to add our flour to that a little bit at a time

And you can see it's starting to get nice and creamy now

and a nice chocolatey color. All right, now I'm going to finish off our cake

by adding about a teaspoon of vanilla flavoring. And we're ready to go

There's nothing to it. Isn't that a pretty chocolatey color? Now I'm going to pour my batter into a prepared greased pan that's been dusted with flour

And I'm going to spread that out evenly into our pan. And then I'm going to give it just a couple of whacks on the counter to level it out and

and that'll prevent little holes all through your cake because you've gotten that air out of it

and brought it to the top and busted them out. Okay, so this one's ready to go in the oven

We're gonna cook it at 350 for about 40 or 45 minutes

And while that baking I gonna come over here and make our fudge sauce So I gonna start with a stick of butter and German chocolate

I think that's about four ounces. And then an unsweetened chocolate. And we're just gonna let that melt together

And then we don't have but just three more ingredients to add to it

I'm gonna add a little bit of evaporated milk. You can hear our pans nice and hot

And then we're gonna add a little bit of powdered sugar. And we're just gonna go back and forth

with these ingredients until they're all used up. Oh, sauce is gonna be delicious on that cake

All right, and the rest of the milk, and then the rest of the powdered sugar

Now I'm going to let this come to a nice boil and cook for about eight minutes until it's thick and creamy

And that's it. There's nothing to it. Now I've got another cake in the other oven that should be ready, and we'll pull it out

Let's see what we've got. Oh it looks good And you can see by me knocking out the air bubbles what a smooth finish it gives us to our cake Now I going to take this off of the stove

because I've actually made some earlier, and I'll show you what it looks like

after it's cooked for eight minutes and cooled a little bit. You can see it's kind of gotten thick

It looks so good. Well, I don't know about y'all, but I'm ready to have me a piece of that chocolate cake

But before I serve myself a piece of cake, I'm gonna add the vanilla to this sauce

because, you know, you don't wanna add extracts while your dishes are cooking

because you don't want that flavor to evaporate. So we're gonna add it at the last minute

Okay. Mm, looks delicious. And I think with the aroma of the chocolate

it just smells so good. And, you know, I don't think I'm gonna put anything

on my piece of cake but the hot fudge sauce believe it or not and maybe a few chocolate curls

and maybe just a little extra um looks just delicious doesn't it

um that's so belly pleasing