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Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" chocolate cake + frosting

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even*cleveland4mo ago

Stealth all-time cake great lurking on the back of the Hershey's cocoa box (many recipes online are basically a riff on it). Light, fluffy + deliciously cocoa-y (you can also sub in fancier cocoa, if you like, or Hershey's Special Dark cocoa). The secret is adding a cup of boiling water (or hot coffee) to the cake batter, which makes it appalling gloppy. Comes out wonderfully every time, though. I like to make seven-minute frosting (basically v. soft marshmallow) to layer in-between, so that the...

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