Chocolate Cake With Mocha Dressing Frosting
The lovely lady from whom I cribbed this recipe calls it her "crazy cake," but since I baked it up and served it to friends for the first time on Election Night 2006, I've been thinking of it as Victory Cake.
Either way you call it, it's the most straight-forward and reliable recipe for classic American chocolate cake I've ever seen.
This is the cake part.
Mix together:
Pour in:
This is the frosting part.
Mix:
Either way you call it, it's the most straight-forward and reliable recipe for classic American chocolate cake I've ever seen.
This is the cake part.
Mix together:
--3 cups flour
--2 tsp. baking soda
--1 tsp. salt
--2 cups sugar
--1/3 cup cocoa powder
Pour in:
--1 tsp. vanillaWhip with a fork until smooth, pour into 11"x13" tin (or equivalent, bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes.
--3/4 cup vegetable or canola oil
--2 tsp. white vinegar
--2 cups water
This is the frosting part.
Mix:
--3 cups powdered sugarI'm telling you; it looks ridiculously easy, it is ridiculously easy, but it's awfully good.
--6 tsp. cocoa
--6 tsp. melted butter
--6 tsp. hot coffee
--1 tsp. vanilla
Marilee Scott 1:31 AM
6 Comments:
It was awfully good! Glad to have the recipe. The white vinegar is a little surprising!
White vinegar crops up in some older chocolate dessert recipes. My grandmother's fudge recipe has it, to cut the sweetness.
I always think putting it in a recipe with baking soda is going to make the batter explode all over my kitchen but, in those quantities, I guess not.
so could one substitute 2T for 6tsp ? or is the quantity affected by the number of measurements? It looks like a great chocolate cake.
Could one substitute 2T for 6tsp? Um, yes! Now, why did I have it the other way?
Greeat post thanks
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