{"id":2130,"date":"2026-02-15T18:41:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipe4thecook.com\/\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:44","slug":"hugs-and-kisses-chocolate-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/hugs-and-kisses-chocolate-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugs And Kisses Chocolate Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>3\/4 C. butter or margarine<br \/>\n1 3\/4 C. sugar<br \/>\n2 eggs<br \/>\n1 tsp. vanilla extract<br \/>\n2 C. flour<br \/>\n3\/4 C. cocoa<br \/>\n1 1\/4 tsp. baking soda<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. salt<br \/>\n1 1\/3 C. water<br \/>\nChocolates and chocolate kisses<br \/>\nCocoa Fudge Frosting:<br \/>\n1\/2 C. butter or margarine<br \/>\n1\/2 C. cocoa<br \/>\n3 2\/3 C. powdered sugar<br \/>\n1\/3 C. milk, heated<br \/>\n1 tsp. vanilla extract<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Heat oven to 350. Grease and flour 13x9x2-inch baking pan. In large bowl, beat butter  and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat 1 minute on medium speed of  electric mixer. Stir together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add alternately with water  to butter mixture, beating until well blended. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 40-45  minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes;  remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely. Frost with frosting. Remove wrappers  from candies and garnish cake as desired with candies.  Cocoa Fudge Frosting:  In small saucepan over low heat, melt butter; stir in cocoa. Cook, stirring constantly, until  mixture thickens slightly. Remove from heat; pour into small mixer bowl. Add powdered  sugar alternately with warm milk, beating to spreading consistency. Stir in vanilla.  Spread frosting while warm. About 2 1\/2 C. frosting.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>When He rained meat upon them like the dust, Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas, (Psalms 78:27)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cake<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/hugs-and-kisses-chocolate-cake\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}