Chocolate Cake- Never fails- always good
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
1 egg
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup sweet or sour milk or cream
2 cup sifted flour
2 tsp soda
1 cup boiling water
Cream shortening and sugar; add cocoa, egg, salt and vanilla. Sift together flour and soda. Add alternately with milk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Add boiling water last. Bake at 350F for 30 minutes.
Cream Cheese Frosting
3 oz cream cheese, softened
1 Tbsp softened butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 oz unsweetened chocolate, melted
2 cups sifted powdered sugar
In mixing bowl combine cream cheese, butter and vanilla. Beat until light. Stir in melted chocolate and powdered sugar. Beat til fluffy, adding milk or powdered sugar if necessary.
-Marlene Blunt – Dassel Minnesota Covenant Church Cookbook
Prize Chocolate Cake
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup shortening
2 eggs
1 cup sour milk or buttermilk
2 squares Baker’s unsweetened chocolate, melted
2 1/2 cups cake flour*
2 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup warm water
Cream sugar and shortening, add beaten eggs. Add dry ingredients (which have been sifted together) and buttermilk and vanilla. Next add the melted chocolate and lastly the warm water. Pour batter into greased and floured# cake pan (9×13). Bake 10 minutes at 375F and then at 350F for 35 minutes.
-Note: This is our family’s favorite cake. Once when I baked a chocolate “box” cake, I was told never to do that again. My family insisted on this chocolate cake made from scratch. Recipe given to me by Elise Mikkula.- Orpha Hendrickson – Dassel Minnesota Covenant Church Cookbook-
-also contributed by Sharon (Anderson) Behrens & Mrs. Delmond Berg
*make cake flour from all purpose flour by sifting the flour and then pulling out 2 Tbsp of flour in each cup of flour needed then replacing the flour with 2 Tbsp of cornstarch. Sift the two ingredients again and you now have cake flour.
#instead of flour use powdered cocoa to dust your cake pan. It doesn’t show on a chocolate cake.
Devil’s Food Cake
1 square chocolate
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup butter or margarine
2 cups white sugar
2 eggs (beaten)
1 cup buttermilk
2 cup sifted flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
2 tsp soda
1 tsp vanilla
pinch of salt
Bring chocolate and water to boil, slowly until smooth; cool. Cream together butter, sugar and mix in eggs. Sift together flour and cornstarch (3 times), add salt, soda and sift again. Alternate dry ingredients with buttermilk and vanilla. Mix in chocolate mixture. Bake at 350F for 40 minutes in greased and floured 9×13 pan.
-Edith Hanson & Sheila Rossell – Dassel Minnesota Covenant Church Cookbook
Picnic Chocolate Cake
2 cup flour
1 3/4 cup sugar
1 Tbsp soda
1/2 cup cocoa
1 egg
2/3 cup salad oil
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup strong hot coffee
Mix all dry ingredients first. Then add the egg, oil and buttermilk. Add the hot coffee last. Batter will be thin. Pour into a greased 9×13 pan and bake 35-40 minutes at 350F. This cake stays moist for a long time.
Frosting
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
Boil all ingredients for a full minute. Cool and beat until spreadable.
-Grace Swanson – Dassel Minnesota Covenant Church Cookbook
Frosting #2- Eleanor uses this frosting when making the above cake.
1 1/2 cup white sugar
6 Tbsp margarine
6 Tbsp milk
1/2 cup chocolate chips
Combine sugar, margarine and milk in saucepan. Bring to rolling boil for 1/2 minute. Take off stove and stir in chocolate chips. Stir every now and then until quite cool and thick enough to spread on cake.
-Eleanor Houts- Dassel Minnesota Covenant Church Cookbook
Chocolate Cake
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 squares melted chocolate
2 eggs, beaten
2 cups flour
1 tsp soda
1 cup cold water
1 tsp vinegar
1 tsp vanilla
Cream butter and sugar, add melted chocolate and eggs. Add flour and soda alternately with water and vinegar. Add vanilla last. Bake at 350F for 30 minutes in a 9×13 pan.
-Della Bengtson – Dassel Minnesota Covenant Church Cookbook
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