The Best Ever Fudge Cake

Ingredients

• 1-2/3 cup sugar, divided
• 1-1/2 cup milk, divided
• 3 eggs, divided
• 3 ounces of Scharffen Berger Unsweetened Baking Chocolate
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 teaspoon Nielson-Massey Madagascar Vanilla
• 2 cups cake flour, sifted
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Grease 2 9x1-1/2 inch round cake pans and dust with flour.  Combine 2/3 cup  sugar, 1/2 cup milk, 1 beaten egg and chocolate to a saucepan over medium heat.  Cook until the mixture boils.  Remove from the heat and set aside.
2. Cream the sugar and butter until fluffy.  Stir in the vanilla.  Beat in the remaining eggs one at a time.
3. Sift the flour and baking soda and gradually add to the creamed sugar alternating with the remaining milk.  Stir in the melted chocolate mixture when it has cooled.
4. Transfer the batter to the cake pans and bake until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean (25-30 minutes).  Allow the cakes to cool for 10 minutes.  Remove the cakes from the pans and frost with The Best Milk Chocolate Frosting.