Chocolate Cake
Traditional Chocolate Cake. What more can be said about this baking standard? No cookbook is complete without at least 1 Chocolate Cake recipe. I have a couple that I go back and forth on. But this one is, once again, quick and easy.
There's not really much to vary in the ingredients for this cake. So, if you want some variety try using different types of bakeware. If you're just starting to build your supply of bakeware, Cooking.com has a "starter set" of baking pans that will get you going. I can't remember the last time I bought baking pans. I actually have a set of 9" round cake pans I got from my mother, that must be 40 years old. I just can't give them up. As silly as it may sound, there are just too many memories.
Ingredients
| 1 cup | sugar |
| 1/2 cup | cocoa powder |
| 5 Tbsp | butter |
| 1 | egg |
| 1/4 tsp | salt |
| 1 tsp | baking soda |
| 1 cup | flour |
| 1 cup | buttermilk or sour milk |
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour 8"x8" pan.
Mix together sugar, cocoa, butter and egg.
Combine salt, baking soda and flour together.
Add alternately with milk to cocoa mixture.
Pour into greased 8x8 pan.
Bake 350 about 30 minutes.
Makes 1 cake.
Tip:
If you want to make a layer cake, double the recipe and use two 8" round
baking pans for the batter.
Try frosting with some White Snow Frosting.
