A popular Philadelphia cookbook author, Eliza Leslie, published the earliest chocolate cake recipe in 1847 in The Lady’s Receipt Book. Unlike chocolate cake recipes we know today, that original recipe used chopped chocolate! Later life got quicker with the advent of the first boxed cake mix, created by a company called O. Duff and Sons ,in the late 1920s. Betty Crocker released their first dry cake mixes in 1947.
There have been a lot of great chocolate cake recipes out their since 1857, but there is ONE that our family ALWAYS goes back to. Because it never fails- so in honor of the day, make one for YOUR family today:
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| courtesy of Helmann's |
Cake
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
2 cps flour
2 cps unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/4 tspn baking soda
1/4 tspn baking powder
3 eggs
1 2/3 cps suga
1
tspn vanilla extract
1 cp Hellmann's mayonnaise
1 1/3 cp water
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease and lightly flour 2 9-inch round cake pans, set aside.
2. In medium bowl, combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and baking powder; set aside.
3. In large bowl, with electric mixer at high speed, beat eggs, sugar and vanilla for
3 minutes or until light and fluffy. Beat in mayonnaise at low speed until blended.
4. Alternately beat in the flour mixture with water, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Pour into prepared pans.
5. Bake 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean.
6. Cool on wire racks about 10 minutes; then remove from pans and cool completely.
7. Frost with chocolate frosting, (below): frost cake with 1/3 frosting between the 2 layers and the rest covering the top and sides of cake. or sprinkle, with confectioners sugar.
Frosting:
Ingredients:
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
- 2/3 cp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3 cps powdered sugar
- 1/3 cp milk
- 1 tspn vanilla extract
- Directions:
1. Melt butter. Stir in cocoa.
2. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, mixing between additions (use more milk if needed).
3. Add vanilla and blend in well.
ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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