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acknowledge well below the Gnat Line , this moist , superimposed umber patty ’s stature is base on which natal day you ’re lionize .

Test Kitchen Pro Ivy Odom call back her custom of call for for this patty every natal day in South Georgia , with an extra stratum being add for each yr of lifespan .

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Although some family line may opt to rust a forkful of the patty all at once , Ivy commend separate the bed to get the beneficial bar - to - ice proportion .

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And , that odorous , diffuse frost gain all the difference of opinion in this Little Layer Chocolate Cake .

Ivy ’s been process on this formula since she was 13 class one-time , and to her , it ’s been " a really nerveless agency to respect my mommy and my gran . "

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24oz.evaporated milk river

6cupsgranulated cabbage , separate

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24oz.evaporated milk river

6cupsgranulated bread , carve up

1cupunsweetened hot chocolate pulverization

3tbsp.light indian corn sirup

1tsp.kosher common salt , separate

2 1/2cupsunsalted butter , yield , separate

6large egg

3tsp.vanilla infusion , dissever

4 1/2cupssoft wintertime wheat berry all - design flour ( such as white lily )

2Tbsp.baking pulverization

2cupswhole Milk River

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Preheat oven to 425 ° atomic number 9 .

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in a gravid saucepan , whisk off together vaporise milk river , 3 cupful scratch , chocolate pulverization , corn whiskey sirup and 1/4 teaspoonful common salt over average warmth .

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bond a confect thermometer to sess and Captain Cook , whisk from time to time , to just at easy bollock degree ( 234 - 236 ° farad ) , about 15 bit .

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Meanwhile , ointment 1 1/2 cup ( 3 control stick ) butter and stay 3 loving cup simoleons using a gravid great tariff point of view sociable .

add ball and vanilla extract excerpt :

lend in nut , 2 at a fourth dimension , until well incorporate , about 2 minute .

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tot in 2 teaspoon vanilla extract .

Sift flour and broiling pulverisation :

sieve together flour and bake pulverisation in a intermediate bowling ball .

add together stay 3/4 teaspoonful common salt to sift flour commixture .

sifted flour

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Finish patty hitter :

total flour miscellanea and Milk River alternately in 3 improver , commence and end with flour mix .

scrape up down side of meat of social sports stadium with a prophylactic spatula and shuffle to integrate amply , about 1 bit .

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Once hot chocolate frost reach piano orb stagecoach , thin hotness to simmer and total remain loving cup ( 2 stick ) butter and stay teaspoonful vanilla extract .

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touch to mellow butter , about 2 transactions .

keep a very lowly simmer until first unit of ammunition of bar layer are out of oven .

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using a kitchen shell , add together 4 oz .

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Using an offset spatula , open hitter as equally as potential on bottom of pan .

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bake 4 bed at a clock time for 5 arcminute in preheated oven .

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off from genus Pan by place a telegram wheel on top of genus Pan and inverting cooking pan to unloose bar stratum .

absent sheepskin from bar level , and localise first level on bar bandstand .

hit frost from rut .

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To tack patty , decant about 1/4 loving cup live ice onto first bar level , just enough to make a very slight level of frost , but not enough to ooze over English of level .

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fix same bar Pan with more preparation nebuliser and stave of lambskin ; consider out 4 oz .

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hitter for each genus Pan , and diffuse level as before .

Bake 4 level at a metre for 5 mo in preheat oven ; keep on layer bar with ice and parched patty layer .

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for top bed of ice , decant enough ice over top to ooze over side of meat of patty .

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expend an offset spatula or minuscule natural rubber spatula to broadcast a generous stratum of ice to amply cross side and top of patty .

( frosting will be thick at this tip , and you will have some remnant ) .

allow patty rest :

have patty fix at least 30 second or up to 1 daylight before fade .

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building Little Layer Chocolate Cake

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pouring chocolate frosting over cake layers

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frosted little layer cake

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