{"id":373,"date":"2008-10-14T21:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glutenfreeislife.wordpress.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2008-10-14T21:00:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T01:00:30","slug":"happy-birthday-mack-and-chocolate-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Mack and Chocolate Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is my father-in-law, Mack’s, birthday. We won’t share how old he is going to be, only that we all know that you get better with age, just like a fine wine. \ud83d\ude42 We met FIL and MIL out at Molly Woo’s Asian Bistro<\/a> for dinner. It was really good. They have a nice size gluten-free menu, so Jon and I had a nice selection of choices. I chose the Black Pepper Steak (added in snow peas to the mushrooms & green beans) with brown rice and a couple of chicken lettuce wraps for an appetizer. Jon had Pineapple Chicken with brown rice. After we had a nice dinner, we came back to our house for coffee and dessert. I made an amazing Chocolate Cake that I found on Carrie’s, Ginger Lemon Girl<\/a>, blog. It is called “Everyday Chocolate Cake<\/a>” and it truly was amazing. The directions were super easy and the cake took no time to make at all. I frosted it with a chocolate frosting recipe from the back of the Hershey’s Cocoa can.<\/p>\n

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Hershey’s Chocolate Frosting<\/strong>
\n**From the Hershey’s Cocoa Can<\/p>\n

1 stick of butter (1\/2 cup), melted
\n2\/3 cup cocoa
\n3 cups powdered sugar
\n1 tsp vanilla
\n1\/3 cup milk (I used 1%)<\/p>\n

Melt butter and mix in with cocoa until smooth. Add vanilla and then alternately add the powdered sugar and milk until the frosting is the right consistency. I had to add a little more than 1\/3 cup of milk. Just do it a little at a time. Frost cake. This made enough for 2 layers, so for this cake, you may want to cut the recipe in half.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Serve cake with ice cream. I had Edy’s Slow-Churned Pumpkin with mine, Hannah had Edy’s Cookies & Cream (not GF) with hers.<\/p>\n

Not really on the topic, but I was nominated for the Blogger’s Choice Awards! WOOHOO!! You can vote for me by going here<\/a>. Then search “gluten-free” and I am on page 2 under “Gluten-Free is Life”. How exciting!<\/p>\n

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