Hi,
My name is Julie and I want use this blog to share with you some of the best idea's or tricks I've got up my sleeve; from cooking to arts and crafts, gardening, books...whatever inspires me. I want to share it with you and hopefully you'll find something that captures your interest! For tonight it is an awesome chocolate cake recipe from an old, a REALLY old cooking book my neighbours Mrs.G gave me as a child. She got this book when she was just married and had a double of it...lucky me inherited it!
So here is the best chocolate cake recipe ever!!! Try it out and let me know if you enjoyed it!
Mrs.G's Chocolate cake Recipe
1cup and 3/4 of Flour
1/4 tsp of Baking soda
1 and 1/2 tsp of Baking powder
1/2 tsp of Salt
1/4 cup of coco powder ( I added that on... it really adds on to the flavor of the cake!)
1/2 cup of Shortening
1cup and 1/4 of Sugar
2 Eggs
2 pieces of unsweetened chocolate cubs ( I added semi-sweet and it worked perfectly!)
1tsp of Vanilla
1 cup of Milk
1. Mix all dry ingredients together(flour, coco powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt)
2. Cream your shortening with your sugar and then add eggs
3. Melt your chocolate and then incorporate your vanilla to your chocolate.
4. Begin by adding your wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and then alternate with the milk.
You should then have a smooth consistency pour into two 8"cake pan and cook at 350c for 40 minutes. You could also make cup cakes out of this recipe but your cooking time would be cut in half, therefore 20-25 minutes. Once it's cooked let it cool down and unmold, then cut and serve. I like to add my dad's strawberries mixture but you can pour cream or icing, what ever floats your bloat^^)
* Tip if you have dark cake pans reduce your ovens temperature by 25 degrees...why??? Well, simply because dark cake pans have a tendency to cook quicker than light cake pans. It's as simply as that!
Well on that note...have fun cooking as my chocolate cake is ready to be eaten!!!
Cheers
