Chocolate Raspberry Cake

The Original Binder · 1981-2017 people: ned, barbara, will
This is Ned's other cake. It has been made many times, most recently to welcome Barbara home from her 20th high school reunion. Will had the chicken pox and hadn't been sleeping well. Ned and Will had read 4 books, watched 2 movies, and baked this cake, all before 8:00 a.m. that day. Use your Cuisinart for this recipe, if you have one.

Ingredients

4 eggs 2 cups sugar 1 cup cocoa 1 1/3 cup butter 1 cup milk 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 1/3 flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 cup raspberry jam Store-bought vanilla frosting Fresh raspberries or frozen raspberries, thawed

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour cake pans. Process eggs and sugar with metal blade until light fluffy and pale yellow in color, about 90 seconds. Add cocoa and process to combine, 25 - 30 seconds. Scrape work bowl. Cut butter into 1 inch pieces and process until creamy, about 15 seconds. With motor running, pour milk and vanilla through feed tube; scrape work bowl. Add flour and baking powder and pulse just until flour disappears, 2-3 times. Pour into prepared pans and bake until cake tester comes out clean, 30-35 minutes. Cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes, then turn out onto rack to finish Spread jam between cake layers. Put as many raspberries as you can afford on the jam between the cake layers. Mix raspberry jam with frosting, and spread on cake. Put as many raspberries as you can afford on the top of the frosting and around the cake, preferably in an exquisite design.
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