Chocolate Spice Cake ( don't use pumpkin pie spice)

It's me again! hope you missed me. Got another Yummy recipe. It's called chocolate spice cake, and It's from a book called, "Teens cook" by Megan and Jill Carle.

cake

1 tbsp. vinegar
1 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground allspice
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups flour
1 cup raisins (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. lightly butter or spray two 8 in. round cake pans.

place the vinegar into a one cup measurer and top it off with milk till it's full.
set aside.

place butter and egg into a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer on medium high till the mix is fluffy.
add sugar and mix for 1 minute.

add baking powder, soda, cloves, cinnamon, allspice,and cocoa powder and mix for 1 min. or until mix is completely even in color. add flour and mix till completely incorporated. Add the milk and vinegar, and mix till completely smooth.add raisins, and mix till evenly distributed.

put half the batter in each cake pan, and spread evenly. Bake the cakes at 20 -25 minutes, or until a toothpick, inserted in middle of cake,comes out clean.  place a wire cooling rack on top of each cake pan. hold both wire rack and cake pan, and turn them over, and remove pan.cool cakes to room temperature.

Frosting

3 oz. unsweetened chocolate
1 cup butter
1 egg
3 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 tbsp milk
pinch of salt

place unsweetened chocolate in a microwave safe bowl. microwave until completely melted.

place butter and egg in a large bowl, and beat with electric mixer until fluffy. Add sugar and melted chocolate and mix, until completely even in color. Add vanilla, milk, and salt. mix until combined.

place on of the cakes upside down on a serving platter, and cover top and sides with half of frosting. place remaining cake upside down on top of the frosted cake, and spread the remaining frosting on the top and sides, blending the upper and lower portions as you go.

Whew! That took a while.
When I made this cake, I played around with the spices a little. I added a bit of nutmeg, and some pumpkin pie spice.The nutmeg was pretty good, but don't add the pump. pie spice . It makes it taste a little like, well you can guess. I also added one more cup of milk than I needed to. It all came out well in the end though. (even if it was a little doughy and pie tasting)
When I took it out, I was to overexcited to remember to let it cool. The  frosting melted right off. I scooped it back in, and was a little more willing to wait after that.  After that, we all enjoyed a nice cake together.

just remember those tips and you'll be fine.
I'll write again soon