1 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 1 ounce chocolate squares, unsweetened and melted
5 eggs
2 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour milk or buttermilk
1 cup coarsely broken walnuts
0VEN TEMP 350 degrees
Stir the shortening to soften, and gradually add sugar. Cream till light and fluffy.
Add vanilla and chocolate mixing well.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after adding each egg.
Sift flour, soda and salt together 3 times;
Add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, a small amount at a time.
Beat after each addition until smooth. Stir in nuts.
Bake in 3 paper-lined 9" round pans in moderate oven (350 degrees) about 30 minutes.
Ingredients needed to finish making your Dream Cake
1 quart of ice cream or half gallon (whatever flavor you would like)
depending on how much you want to put inbetween layers of cake
1 quart of whipped cream(dream whip etc) found in your frozen dairy section...lol
1 quart of frozen strawberries, thawed
Putting your Dream Cake together
Between first and second layers put a layer of ice cream and a thin layer of strawberries on top of ice cream.
Between second and third layers put another layer of ice cream.
You can choose at this point to frost cake with whatever frosting comes to mind
or your favorite leaving the top of the cake unfrosted.
On top of cake frost it with whipped cream putting the rest of the strawberries in the center of cake.
This is not a cake that you would leave out on a counter or in the refrigerator.
It should be eaten all at once or remainder put in freezer as ice cream melts.
Thanks for the recipe Tana
