Chocolate Picnic Cake

Submitted by Lauren Clark

"Rich, moist, chocolaty and wonderful with vanilla ice cream!"

 

• Ready In: 53mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 9

ingredients

• 2 (1 ounce) unsweetened chocolate squares
• 1 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 1 cup sugar
• 3⁄4 cup cold water
• 1⁄3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

directions

1. In a microwave, melt chocolate; cool for 10 minutes.
2. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
3. In a mixing bowl, beat the egg and sugar.
4. Beat in the water and oil.
5. Stir in the melted chocolate and dry ingredients; mix until blended.
6. Pour into a greased 8 inch square baking pan.
7. Sprinkle with chocolate chips.
8. Bake at 350° for 32-38 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
9. Cool on a wire rack!

Reviews

[The Daycare Lady]

This cake is for chocolate lovers. I substitute 6T of cocoa and 2 T of vegetable oil for the baking chocolate. Just add the cocoa to the dry ingredients and and the extra 2 T of vegetable oil to the other 1/3 cup. It works out great and costs less.

 

[Baker Barb]

Wonderful and addictive! It really fills the need for "something chocolate-y" when you need it! Easy and quick to make and I love that the chocolate chips on top not only bribe my kids doing whatever I ask of them (!) and that they make it easy to pack up in lunches without a sticky icing. Stayed moist for 3 days - as long as it lasted in my house. My whole family give it 5 stars! : )

 

[SweetDivaMJ]

You have to love recipes like this one. It freezes well...and the chocolate chip topping makes it easy to pack in lunches and carry along to picnics. I originally got the recipe from Taste of Home and have made it many times. Thanks for posting! : )

 

[Mymble]

This was a nice easy cake. It had a great texture - moist and fluffy, but with some body to it. I picked it because I wasnted to use up some Baker's Unsweetened Chocolate that had been in my cupboard for ages, and a package of open chocolate chips that had been around for a while too. The flavor was not that intense in my cake, but I'm sure it would improve if I used fresher and better-quality ingredients! By the way - I left it in the pyrex pan to cool instead of putting it on a wire rack, and it seemed to do fine - I just cut it into squares in the pan. Thanks for the recipe!

 

[Karamia]

Outstanding! I love this! It's like a cakey brownie and is very addictive. Luckily it only makes an 8x8in pan, so you can't pig out too badly! Great recipe for a weeknight dessert, really fast and easy to mix up, no mixer required!