Chocolate Picnic Cake
Source of Recipe
Taste of Home 2002 Annual Recipes, pg. 205
Recipe Introduction
This is a very good basic chocolate snack cake that you can throw together at a moments notice if you have a craving for chocolate. I liked it best served warm...and a little ice cream didn't hurt it either. And I'm not even one to eat ice cream and cake together, but it goes great with this. I also liked that it's just an 8 inch cake. I only like a dessert to sit around for 2 or 3 days and then I'm ready to move on to the next dessert recipe!
List of Ingredients
2 squares unsweetened chocolate -- (1 oz each)
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup cold water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla -- optional (my addition)
1 cup semisweet chocolate chipsRecipe
In a microwave, melt chocolate; cool for 10 min. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. In a mixing bowl, beat the egg and sugar. Beat in the water and oil. Stir in melted chocolate and dry ingredients; mix until well blended.
Pour into a greased 8-inch sq baking pan. Sprinkle with chocolate chips. Bake at 350 degrees for 32-38 min or until a toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack.
Yield: 9 servings
NOTES : My flour mixture wouldn't mix into the wet ingredients smoothly. Next time I'll try to sift the dry ingredients over the wet. I had white clumps in the cake! It was still yummy. Moist and chocolatey. It's good warm with french vanilla ice cream. Warm leftovers in the microwave.
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