Chocolate Cake Recipe

Chocolate Cake

Perfect Chocolate Cake

Ingredients required
1 cup unsweetened cocoa
2 cups boiling water
2 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup butter or margarine
2 1/2 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Perfect Chocolate Cake Recipe

Combined cocoa, boiling water. Mix until smooth. Cool. Sift flour, soda, salt and baking powder. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour three 9 inch pans. Beat butter, eggs, sugar, and vanilla about 5 minutes. Beat in flour alternately with Cocoa mixture. Bake 25 to 30 minutes. Serve 10 to 12.

Chocolate Chip with Dates/Cherries Cake

Ingredients required
4 eggs well beaten
1 cup sugar
1/4 stick margarine
1 1/2 cup sifted flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoons salt
2 cups chopped nuts
1 large package of chocolate chips
1 cup cutup dates
1 cup quartered maraschino cherries

Preheat oven 325 degrees

Instructions for Chocolate Chip with Dates/Cherries Cake Recipe

Beat eggs. Add sugar, melted butter and beat well. Stir dry ingredients together. Add chocolate, nuts, dates, and cherries to flour mixture and mix thoroughly, fold into egg mixture and stir until flour is all moistened. Pour into greased and lined with grease paper 9 1/2 by 5 1/2 by 2 1/4 inches or angel food pan. Bake about 1 to 1 1/4 hours at 325° oven until cake is light brown on top. Remove cake from pan and pull off paper. Cool several hours.

Chocolate Chip Cake

Ingredients required
2 cups flour
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/4 cup milk
3 eggs
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips chopped
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Chocolate Chip Cake Recipe

Measure all ingredients into large mixer bowl. Blend 1/2 minute on low speed, scraping Bowl constantly. Beat 3 minutes on high speed, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour into 13x9x2 inch or 9x1 1/2 inch pan. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, or until pick inserted into center comes out clean. Serves 12. Use blender for chopping chocolate chips.

Salad Dressing Chocolate Cake

Ingredients required
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 tbsp soda
1 cup salad dressing
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup cold water

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Salad Dressing Chocolate Cake Recipe

Sift all ingredients together. Beat until smooth. Bake in 7x11 inch pan for 30 to 35 minutes.

Black Chocolate Cake

Ingredients required
1/2 cup cocoa
1 cup hot water
3 tablespoons shortening
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tbsp vinegar

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Black Chocolate Cake Recipe

Boil cocoa in water till thick. Add shortening and sugar and cool. Sift flour, soda and salt. Add to Coco mixture. Add egg, vanilla and vinegar. Mix thoroughly. Pour in 8 x 8 in pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. double batch in sheet pan bakes for 1 hour

Black Chocolate Cake

Ingredients required
2 cups hot water
4 squares baker's chocolate
dash of salt
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 tablespoons margarine
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons soda
2 cup sugar

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Black Chocolate Cake Recipe

Combine in double boiler and cook until thickened, water, chocolate and salt. Add the margarine, while still hot. Cool. Add flour, soda, eggs, sugar, and vanilla. Mix thoroughly. Pour into 9 by 13 inch pan. Bake 30 to 35 minutes. Serves 12.

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients required
one egg
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cup flour, sifted
1/2 cup sour milk (use 1 teaspoon vinegar to sour sweet milk)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup boiling water

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Chocolate Cake Recipe

Put all ingredients in a bowl in the order given. Do not mix until all gredients are added, then beat well. Bake at 350 degrees in greased and floured round, square or cupcake pans for about 50 minutes. Makes one conventional two layer cake. Serves 8 to 10.

Chocolate Cake

Instructions for Chocolate Cake Recipe

Upside Down Cocoa Cake

Ingredients required
3 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1 - 29 Oz can peach slices or pear halves, well drained
maraschino cherries, halved
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/4 cup sifted flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup buttermilk

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Upside Down Cocoa Cake Recipe

In a small saucepan melt 3 tablespoons of butter with 1/2 cup brown sugar and corn syrup. Heat until blended.
Grease sides of Bundt or tube pan, and purr heated mixture into bottom. Arrange well drain fruit and cherries and a decorative design and sprinkle with chopped walnuts. In bowl cream butter or margarine until light, gradually beat in sugar. Beat in eggs, one other time. Add vanilla. Sift together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Add to the creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Spoon batter evenly over fruit in pan and bake 50 minutes or until cakes test done. Invert immediately on serving plate, leaving pan over can for a few minutes. Serve warm. Serves 10 to 12. May be served plain, or with unsweetened whipped cream.

Enjoy quick and easy recipes from an old cookbook made about fifty years ago from a rural community plus a recipe from the White House, Mrs.Gerald Ford, the First Lady's Strawberry Blitz Torte recipe about 1975. Also a recipe from the Vice Presidents wife, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller.