Hershey's Chocolate Cake, Icing and Brownies

Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate"Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

2 C sugar
1 3/4 C all purpose (plain) flour
3/4 C cocoa
1 1/2 t baking powder
1 1/2 t baking soda
1 t salt
2 eggs
1 C milk
1/2 C vegetable oil
2 t vanilla extract
1 C boiling water

Oven= 350F
2-9" round cake pans, greased and floured

1. Combine dray ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla and beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
3. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin).
4. Pour in to pans and bake for 30 to 35 minutes.
5. Check with a wooden pick, if it comes out clean, the cake is done.
6. Cool for 10 minutes in the pans.
7. Remove to a wire rack and cool completely before icing.

Icing

1/2 C butter
2/3 C cocoa
3 cups of icing sugar (this may be too much but was the original recipe)
1/3 C milk
1 t vanilla

1. Melt butter and then stir in the cocoa.
2. Add sugar and milk alternatively and beat on a medium speed.
3. Add more milk if necessary.
4. Stir in vanilla.

Hershey's Best Brownies

Ingredients

1 C butter
2 C sugar
2 t vanilla
4 eggs
1 C all purpose flour (plain flour)
3/4 C cocoa
1/2 t baking powder
1/4 t salt
1 C chopped nuts

1. Heat oven to 350F and grease and flour a 13" x 9" x 2" pan.
2. Melt butter, stir in sugar and vanilla.
3. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well with spoon after each addition.  Add flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt; beat until well blended.
4. Stir in nuts and pour in to pan.
5. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan.
6. Cool completely.