{"id":2328,"date":"2026-02-15T18:41:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipe4thecook.com\/\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:56","slug":"midnight-moon-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/midnight-moon-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Moon Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>1\/2 C. shortening<br \/>\n1 1\/4 C. white sugar<br \/>\n2 eggs<br \/>\n1 C. hot water<br \/>\n1\/2 C. unsweetened cocoa powder<br \/>\n1 1\/2 C. sifted flour<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. salt<br \/>\n1 tsp. baking soda<br \/>\n1 tsp. baking powder<br \/>\n1 tsp. vanilla extract<br \/>\n1 1\/2 C. confectioners sugar<br \/>\n1 tsp. grated lemon zest<br \/>\nLemon juice<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 350. Grease and line with parchment paper one 9-inch round cake pan.  Cream shortening, add white sugar gradually and cream until fluffy. Blend in well beaten  eggs. In separate bowl, slowly add hot water to cocoa; mix until smooth, dissolving cocoa  completely. In third bowl, sift together flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder; add  to creamed mixture alternately with cocoa mixture. Blend in vanilla. Pour batter into one  9-inch round pan. Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes or until tester comes out clean. Cool and  ice with Lemon Icing.  Icing:  Combine confectioner&#8217;s sugar with enough lemon juice to make icing spreadable  without being runny or stiff (about 1\/4 C.). Stir in grated zest. Pour icing over top of  cake.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&quot;Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience&#039; sake;&quot; (1Corinthians 10:25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cake<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/midnight-moon-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-2328","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\/2328","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=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}