Review of last recipe - Stuffed Mussels (photo above) - These were good ... I broiled them at the end so that the cheese didn't look so pasty, but it took me an entire hour to prep (40 minutes to shuck the mussels/20 minutes to make the filling), which means I won't be making these again.  If the mussels had been larger, maybe it wouldn't have been such an ordeal, but I bought local Maine mussels, and they tend to be on the small size.

TODAY'S RECIPE - CHOCOLATE CAKE (specifically Ann's Chocolate Cake)
Circa 1980 ... from a Hershey Foods Corporation advertisement.  I will only be making a one-layer cake (the whole calorie/too much dessert in the house and I can't resist dilemma).

350 degree oven

1/4 cup butter
2 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
3/4 cup Hershey's cocoa
1/4 cup shortening
1 3/4 cups flour
3/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
1 3/4 cups milk

Generously grease and flour two 9" or three 8" round cake pans.

Cream butter, shortening, sugar and vanilla until fluffy, then blend in eggs.

Combine cocoa, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in bowl.  Add alternately with milk to batter.  Blend well.  Pour into prepared pangs.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes for 9" pans and 35-40 minutes for 8" pans, or until tester inserted in center comes out clean.  Cool for 10 minutes, then remove from pans.