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Subject: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 13 Jan 02 - 08:09 AM A very good friend has a birthday party next week. I have promised to bake a "death-by-chocolate" cake. Dark chocolate preferred. At least 30 people are expected at the party; I was thinking of a 10" X 15" sheet cake (that's the biggest pan I have). Got any good recipes? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: GUEST,mmm Date: 13 Jan 02 - 09:19 AM Animaterra You will find some great recipes on the hershey site (sorry I can't figure out the blue clicky thing). Just about every recipe you would want is there. Texas sheet cake is a very good one and if you like cherrys and chocolate there is a good recipe too , if you can't find one let me know and I will dig out some of mine mmm |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 13 Jan 02 - 09:48 AM Thanks, mmm! Here's Hershey's. I also found this site which looks great- it even increases or decreases the recipe for you! But I still want to see what my friends in the Mudcat community can come up with! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 13 Jan 02 - 09:52 AM Here I go again. Let's try Hershey's |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Sorcha Date: 13 Jan 02 - 09:56 AM OK, lemme get woke up a little. Still of first cup of coffee. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Sorcha Date: 13 Jan 02 - 10:51 AM Here goes:
SOURDOUGH CHOCOLATE CAKE
This takes several days........make a sourstarter by placing 2 cups of NON self rising flour in a crock, jar, etc. Add 2 1/2 cups of warm, not hot, water. Cover loosely with a cloth to keep the dust and bugs out. Place in warm, not hot place and wait 4-5 days for it to start bubbling and smell yeasty/beery. You can hurry this process by adding 1 packet of dry bread yeast or use water you have boiled potatoes in. If you use potato water or yeast, you should have a functional starter in less than 24 hours.
Now, for the cake:
In another bowl, cream 1/2 cup shortening and 1 cup sugar. Add 1 tsp vanilla, 1 tsp red food color (optional), 1/2 tsp salt, and 1 1/2 teaspoons baoking soda. Mix well. Add 2 whole eggs one at a time and mix well. Then add 4 oz. of melted, cooled bitter chocolate.(baking chocolate).
Stir the creamed chocolate mixture into the sourdough mix. Blend gently. Pour into a greased, floured cake pan 9x12 and bake 350 35-40 minites. Let cool and frost with Hungarian Chocolate Frosting:
Hungarian Chocolate Frosting
5 or 5 1/2 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate, melted Now you have that wonderful starter, you can do lots of other things, like pancakes, biscuits, etc! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: nutty Date: 13 Jan 02 - 10:55 AM A trick used here in Yorkshire, by my mother and her friends, to bring out the full flavour of the chocolate, was to add a small amount of fresh orange juice to the mixture. It really did work. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 13 Jan 02 - 12:08 PM Well Sorcha - that IS precisely another ingredient used to bring out the "chocolate flavor." Use strong, brewed black coffee. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Liz the Squeak Date: 13 Jan 02 - 01:02 PM Who needs to bother with cake? Just get a 1kg bar of chocolate and a candle or two...... LTS (whose wedding cake was chocolate!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Peg Date: 13 Jan 02 - 06:13 PM Get Rosie's bakery cookbook! All-Butter Sugar-Packed Fresh Cream No Holds Barred Baking Book or some such title. An amazing dessert cookbook. Her chocolate cake layers have many variations and her frostings are also wonderful.
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Grab Date: 14 Jan 02 - 12:06 PM Excuse me? Who used "Hershey" and "chocolate" in the same sentence? That stuff has all the appeal of a dog-turd, but without any benefits to the environment. Just on that theme, is it actually possible to buy proper chocolate in the States? The only place I found anything edible, ironically, was in a shop specialising in imported food which stocked English and continental chocolate. Even the Mars, Snickers and Kit-Kat bars are Hershey-ised. :-( Back to the thread subject. The richest chocolate cake I've ever done is of the crushed-biscuit-crumb variety. Mix crushed biscuits, margarine, cocoa and drinking chocolate in a pan until the margarine's melted, then pack it into a dish and put it in the fridge until it's set. It doesn't need to be big, cos it's so rich you can only eat a tiny bit. I can post quantities if anyone's interested. For a normal sponge cake, I recommend adding to the chocolateyness by grating some milk chocolate in there. Also, adding a little vegetable oil to the mixture makes the cake moister. Graham. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Hollowfox Date: 15 Jan 02 - 08:39 AM Here's mine. This recipe only works well as a sheet cake, or (my usual way) in a loaf pan. It can be doubled, presumably tripled or quadrupled; I just haven't done it yet. 1 egg, 1/2 cup shortning, 1/2 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cups flour, 1/2 cup cocoa, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 cup HOT water. I mix the cocoa and baking soda in with the sugar, just so they blend in better. I use oil for the shortening (same reason). I put in the hot water last. Once I made a double batch and accidentally didn't double the oil, and the cake wasn't hurt a bit. Bake at 350 degrees. 1/2 hour for a single sheet cake, more like 45 minutes or an hour for a loaf. I just put it in the oven and ignore it until it smells done, then I check it with a toothpick. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Mrrzy Date: 15 Jan 02 - 09:08 AM I need to find this recipe, but it's for chocolate pudding cake. You make a kind of regular cake batter and after it's in the pan, pour very carefully some very strong coffee over the top so it layers the liquid on top of the batter. When it's baked, the TOP is chocolate cake and the BOTTOM is chocolate pudding. Serve warm with cream or ice cream and more coffee. But baking is a science, not an art, so I'll try to come up with the recipe for exact amounts... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Sorcha Date: 15 Jan 02 - 09:12 AM Mrz, I've got a reicpe similar, but it doesn't have the coffee. Want it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Mrrzy Date: 15 Jan 02 - 09:27 AM YES pls Sorcha, and you CAN do mine with hot water, but it's better with coffee, we think. There is also something called Depression Cake, which I think has no milk or eggs - cocoa, sugar, cooking oil, and water, maybe some flour, looks really strange, you make it IN the pan you're going to cook it in so no mess at all, and comes out fabulously delicious, plain chocolate cake. Will definitely have to go through my recipes. One of my sisters also makes chocolate-filled cream puff ring, where you make pâte à choux (puff pastry) as if for profiteroles or something, make a huge ring, poke with millions of holes with a toothpick as soon as it comes out of the oven so the steam doesn't soften the pastry, cut in half horizonally and scoop out all the insides, fill with chocolate cream, put top back on and drizzle dark chocolate all over the top. Serves many many people as very rich, also. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Sorcha Date: 15 Jan 02 - 09:32 AM OK, when I get woke up a little more I'll post it. Just gone 7 AM here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Sorcha Date: 15 Jan 02 - 10:02 AM CHOCOLATE PUDDING CAKE In a small bowl, cream together 1 cup granulated sugar 3 Tablespoons powdered, unsweetened cocoa 3 Tablespoons flour (not self rising) 3 Tablespoons butter at room temp
In another bowl, beat well
Bake at 350 40-50 minutes until toothpick inserted in cake layer comes out clean. I see no reason why you could not either warm the milk and add a couple tablspoons of instant coffee, or substitute strong coffee for half the milk. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: MMario Date: 15 Jan 02 - 10:10 AM This is more a method then a recipe.
Make your favorite chocolate layer cake.
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 15 Jan 02 - 12:31 PM Oh, yum- these look great! Thanks, all! I'll be baking on Saturday & will post the recipe I use and the results! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 15 Jan 02 - 01:35 PM In addition to MMario's idea...bake a layer cake. Then slice the layers horizontally (two layers become four layers). Then put frosting between all the layers and nuts on top. (With MMario's idea you can also poke little holes in the hot cake with toothpicks. My mom makes a white cake with a mixture of orange juice and powdered sugar poured into the holes.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: SharonA Date: 15 Jan 02 - 01:55 PM Grab: The woman who used to head the department I work in (she's since retired) is from Great Britain. Every Christmas she would give all of us an assortment of cadbury bars from England – not the Americanized stuff – and you're right, that candy was to die for. She'd bring in the occasional batch of Flake bars, too, to pass around as a pick-me-up. God, I miss that!!! (...even if I did have to pick Flake-bar-flakes out of my keyboard! That thing is aptly named!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Murrey Date: 15 Jan 02 - 08:24 PM This cake is so easy and so chocolate also great for anyone who can't eat eggs.I usually do one and a half recipes for 9x13 so you should be fine doubling for you sheet pan it's a nice thick cake. In large mixing bowl combine :3 cups of flour , 2 cups sugar , 6 tbs unsweetened cocoa ,1 tsp salt , 2 tsp baking soda mix together and add , 1/2 cup oil , 2 tbs vinegar , 2 tsp vanilla , and 2 cups cold water mix until smooth-pour in greased and floured pan ( for large sheet cakes I line the bottom with parchment paper make it a breeze to turn out when done ) Bake in preheated 350 defree oven for 30 minutes ( double recipe probably 45 to 50 minutes . Frosting :/2 cup butter softened , 1 1lb box confectioners' sugar , 1 cup cocoa powder , 2 tsp vanilla and 1/2 cup of milk of half & half beat all till smooth If you try it let me know how it goes Murrey the caterer |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Peg Date: 15 Jan 02 - 11:49 PM My mom's chocolate sheet cake is amazing and I just located the recipe today. The frosting is fudgy and has walnuts; the cake is made with coffee. So not everyone can eat it!
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Rustic Rebel Date: 16 Jan 02 - 02:21 AM Better-than-sex-cake German chocolate cake mix. Bake cake as instructions. When cake is done poke holes with wooden spoon handle and first pour sweetened condensed milk into holes. Then fill with butterscotch or carmel ice-cream topping. Top with fresh whipped cream, and crushed heath bars. This cake is rich and wonderful, but not really better than sex! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 16 Jan 02 - 06:57 AM Peg, how about that recipe? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Grab Date: 16 Jan 02 - 09:14 AM Sharon, Galaxy chocolate is God's gift to the world - I think they mix a little bit of caramel with normal milk chocolate (or at least that it tastes). Maybe I should put a large bar of that in the Mudcat auction? :-) Or a box of Flakes? Although the name "Flake" does have different meaning over that side of the pond! Graham. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Peg Date: 16 Jan 02 - 10:39 AM You got it! Mom's Chocolate Sheet Cake Boil together: 2 cups margarine 4 tablespoons dry cocoa 2 sticks margarine (Mom always used margarine; I would guess you can use butter. Maybe try 1 stick of each) 1 cup water (Mom would often substitute hot coffee for the water; which amounts to melting the shortening and adding the coffee and cocoa to it) (I can call and ask her if you are unsure) Set aside to cool. Cream together: 2 cups sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 cup buttermilk Sift dry ingredients together: 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon Add to sugar-egg mixture, beat well, then slowly add chocolate mixture and blend well. Spread into greased and floured cookie sheet pan. A BIG one! My mom had these old ones that were about a foot and a half long and over an inch deep. I would hope you can still find these. Alternately, halve the recipe and use a smaller pan. The batter should reach about halfway up the sides. Bake 18-20 minutes at 350 (depends on your oven; test it; but don't overbake cuz it is a shallow pan) Frost while still somewhat warm: Frosting recipe Boil: 1 stick margarine (butter probably okay too) 4 tablespooons cocoa 6 tablespoons milk Beat in: 1 pound!!! confectioners' sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla Optional: 2/3 cup chopped walnuts Serve while still warm if possible. This cake is also excellent over the next few days (if it lasts).
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 17 Jan 02 - 09:08 AM I'm going shopping tomorrow- can't wait to try one of these! I won't have time for the sourdough but the others all look great! Thanks, everyone! Allison |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Mrrzy Date: 17 Jan 02 - 09:16 AM That if-you-can't-eat eggs one is very like my Depression cake, which also had oil and vinegar, which I'd forgotten. These are making me hungry! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Sorcha Date: 17 Jan 02 - 12:20 PM Animaterra, one of these days you really should take time to do the sourdough one..........it's WOW! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 17 Jan 02 - 12:34 PM I've just been commissioned to bake another cake in Feb- how many days in advance should I start the starter? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: MMario Date: 17 Jan 02 - 01:11 PM Peg - your first line has margerine twice - is that a typo or does that cake actually have three cups of fat in it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: 8_Pints Date: 17 Jan 02 - 05:28 PM I can't get my head round all this talk of "cups". I have used them, of course, but I much prefer to use the scales and measure in old fashioned English pounds and ounces - yes I know I'm a Luddite! My fool proof favourite recipe is:- 7oz Self raising flour 8oz Castor sugar pinch of salt 1oz Cocoa powder 4oz margarine 2 eggs beaten with 5 tablespoons of evaporated milk and 5 tablespoons water few drops of vanilla essence Sieve flour, salt sugar and cocoa into a bowl Rub in the marg Stir in eggs, liquid and essence and beat well Divide the batter between 2 x 8inch tins that have been greased and lined Bake for about 30mins @ 180C or 350F When cold, sandwich together with milk choc icing. This cake actually is nicer the day after it's made, but with my family it's often all gone by then! Sue vG
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Sorcha Date: 17 Jan 02 - 05:42 PM Allison, you really only need to start the starter about 2-3 days before you are planning to bake. If you started it now, you would have to "divide and feed" it several times before Feb. Seems a shame to toss good starter just to feed it. (Oh, to feed if you want to keep it going, just add 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup water.) Keep it on top of the fridge, water heater, or back of stove. Don't keep it on the back of the stove if the oven is on. Windows will get to hot in summer. If it develops a clear liquid on top, just stir it back in. Actually, that is pure grain alcohol............if it turns orange or some other funky color, toss it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Peg Date: 17 Jan 02 - 08:18 PM oops! Mmario is right; that recipe only calls for 2 sticks of margarine (which is ONE CUP); ignore the two cups listed! Sorry about that! Peg
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: Liz the Squeak Date: 18 Jan 02 - 08:05 PM So who is making the one to take to Stony Stratford then?? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: 53 Date: 18 Jan 02 - 08:26 PM glenda makes a great red velvet cake, does that count? BOB |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your favorite chocolate cake recipe From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 27 Jan 02 - 07:15 AM OK, I made Fabulous Fudge cake from the non-Hershey's link in my second post above, and it was a hit! The frosting came from the same site; I did a search on "dark chocolate frosting" and chose a cream chees frosting. I doubled the chocolate in both recipes. I also smeared "Hershey's Special Dark" fudge sauce directly on the cake before frosting- I had to transport it 15 miles so didn't do it while hot, as I wanted to frost it when I got there- but it still came out fine. The crowning glory was when the resident baking expert asked me for the recipe! And now my daughter wants me to do it again for her birthday in Feb! What a compliment! |