I mentioned this recipe in today's earlier post. This might be the world's easiest chocolate cake. I was about seven when I first made this (with a little help from Mom), and I still love it. It's not as killer as my other favorite chocolate cake, which I will post here in due time, but for a 40 minute start-to-finish cake, it's "darn good," as my Gramma Bonnie might've said.
According to family friend Dot Woodle, from whom I got this recipe, you can mix this right in the pan and then bake it. I've done it, but it's a little messy; I'd recommend a bowl.
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Quick Chocolate Cake
1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup baking cocoa (packed)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 350˚F.
Sift or whisk together all dry ingredients (flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, salt).
Add wet ingredients (water, oil, vinegar, vanilla) and beat until smooth.
Pour into ungreased 8x8" square baking pan. Bake 25-30 minutes.
Great served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
Who can tell me why I titled this entry "Grapefruit Juice"?
7 spoons thrown:
Do you drink a glass of grapefruit juice after eating a piece to wash it down?
Nope. I suppose you could, but a glass of milk is much better. Good guess, though.
Any other takers? Come on. Someone else must've seen this in the earlyish '80s.
The title is teasing me with a sense of deja vu, and I will probably think of it at 3:00 AM and shout it out in my sleep.
You know someone named Dot Woodle! That is a name right out of a Fannie Flagg book. Is she a "character?"
"Eggs! Eggs are in chocolate cake! And milk! And wheat! Oh, goody!"
THAT ring any bells?
Oh, and Dot is a lovely person, but I don't know if she qualifies as a character.
Bill, breakfast is ready. ;-D
We were thinking of two different things, since I thought of mine (a Faulty Towers reference to a girl spilling grapefruit juice) and it has nothing to do with cake.
I don't know who "Anonymous" was, but he or she knows what I was referring to Bill Cosby's "Chocolate Cake for Breakfast" routine from "Bill Cosby: Himself."
Sorry, Charles. I do love Fawlty Towers.
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