Very Chocolate Cake Kids Can Make in 1 Pan Carrie Sheridan

"Easy, moist devil's food cake"
 
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Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
9
Serves:
9
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ingredients

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directions

  • sift together dry ingredients [pressing through a fine sieve is fine] into a 9 inch square pan. Blend.
  • Make 3 holes with a spoon and add oil into 1st, the vinegar in the 2nd and vanilla in the 3rd.
  • Pour 1 cup cold water over all and whisk vigorously.
  • Bake at 350° for 30 minutes. [325° for a glass pan].
  • Let cool and frost.
  • Vanilla Frosting: Heat 2-3 TBS of cream and let cool; blend with with softened butter and powdered sugar to taste. Add a splash of vanilla.
  • Easy Chocolate Frosting: melt butter and semisweet chocolate morsels [in a bowl over a pan of hot water. Remove, add powdered sugar and vanilla. Refrigerate. Whip with a mixer to add air and lighten - then frost cake.

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  1. I remember making this cake when I was a child 60 years ago. Still the easiest and best'
     
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