4 oz Unsweetened chocolate
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    1/2 c  Shortening
      2 c  Sugar
      2    Eggs
      2 c  Sifted cake flour
    1/2 ts Baking powder
      1 ts Baking soda
    3/4 ts Salt
    3/4 c  Buttermilk
    3/4 c  Water
      1 ts Vanilla extract
  Recipe by: Southern Living
  Place chocolate in top of a double boiler; bring water to a
  boil.  Reduce heat to low; cook until chocolate melts.
  Cream shortening; gradually add sugar, beating well at
  medium speed of an electric mixer.  Add eggs, one at a
  time, beating well after each addition.  Add chocolate,
  mixing well. Combine flour, baking powder, soda, and salt;
  add to chocolate mixture alternately with buttermilk,
  beginning and ending with flour mixture.  Mix after each
  addition.  Add water, mixing well.  Stir in vanilla. Pour
  batter into 2 greased and floured 9-inch round cakepans.
  Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick
  inserted in center comes out clean.  Cool in pans 10
  minutes; remove from pans, and let cool completely on wire
  CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES: Spoon batter into paper-lined muffin
  pans, filling each cup half full.  Bake at 350 degrees for
  15 to 18 minutes.  Remove from pans, and let cool on wire
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