Friday 23 September 2011

Easy Dark Chocolate cake



EASY DARK CHOCOLATE CAKE

  1/2 cup cocoa
  milk (see note below)
  4 tablespoons Crisco or butter
  1 cup sugar
  1 egg yolk
  1 cup flour
  1/2 teaspoon salt
  1 teaspoon vanilla
  1 teaspoon baking soda

Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a 1 cup measure, put cocoa powder; add a small amount of hot water and stir until cocoa dissolves. Fill remainder of measuring cup with milk to bring the measurement up to 1 cup total.

Combine flour, salt and baking soda, mixing well. Set aside.

Beat shortening or butter and sugar, add egg yolk, beating for one minute. Stir in vanilla and remaining ingredients.

Mix for one minute. Turn batter into a buttered brownie pan which has been lightly dusted with cocoa (shake out any excess cocoa).

Bake for about 40 minutes or until cake tests done.

2 comments:

  1. If this is the cake you were talking about on FB earlier, I am so totally going to try it...and I have everything I need for it already, so it'll be soon (I hope).

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  2. cool this the one I made tonight...i made it for every birthday party when i was living back home and they could not believe it was made from sccratch...

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