Chocolate Cake recipie

Chocolate Cake I had a recipe and seem to have lost it :(( grrrrrrrrr was made with boiling water oil and looked like soup when one poured it into pan use to make a roasting dish size and was so easy and remember thinking first time I made it, it's far too wet and will not work. Did and it was yummy how I have misplaced recipe is beyond me. Must have given main copy to some one :(( Anyone know the one I mean was around as a big thing just over a year ago? Thanks

"I make this once a week makes a small rosat pan size cake

3.5 c flour
3.5 c sugar
3 t/s Baking powder
1.5 c cocoa
1 cup oil
2 cups milk
3 t/s baking soda
1 t/s salt
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups of boiling water (added at end)

Put all ingredients (except for the water) in a large bowl mix well to a batter. add boiling water and mix till smooth bake in the over at 160 for 1hr. you can split the mix and make two smaller cakes or make 1 smaller cake and put the rest into muffin tins the choice is completely up to you. this is an excellent cake if you have a large family or just want to impress people. gets moister by the day so stays nice and fresh very simular to mud cake.
Quote hooksie60 (129 ) 2:27 pm, Thu 29 Oct #1"

Almost most sounds like it I'll try it tomorrow Thanks

cookessentials wrote:
Mels Secret Chocolate Cake Recipe 2 Cups of water 3 Cups of caster sugar 250gm butter 1/3 Cup cocoa 1 teaspoon of baking soda 3 Cups of self raising flour 4 eggs lightly beaten Combine water, sugar, butter ,cocoa, & soda in a large pot. Stir over medium heat without boiling until sugar is dissolved. Simmer for 5 minutes uncovered. Cool for 10 minutes. Mix in flour and eggs and beat til smooth. Pour into a lined roasting dish and bake for 50 minutes at 160c. Check at 40 minutes. Stand for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.

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melissa411 (223 ) 8:06 pm, Tue 9 Feb #2

:-)

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elliehen (4325 ) 1:03 pm, Sun 21 Apr #2
I have a very similar one which is smaller, from an old cookbook. It is a 1970s New Zealand Woman's Weekly recipe.

BOILED CHOCOLATE CAKE
1 & 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup water
100 gms butter
2 Tablespoons cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking SODA
2 eggs
1 & 1/2 cups flour
1 & 1/2 raised teaspoons baking POWDER

Place sugar, water, butter, cocoa & baking SODA into a saucepan and stir over a low heat until butter has melted

Bring to boil and simmer for 5 minutes

When cool, mix in beaten eggs & flour sifted with baking POWDER

Beat well

Turn into greased & lined 20 cm tin & bake at 180*C for one hour

Edited to add: Reason for the upper case letters - with both baking powder and baking soda in a recipe it's easy to mix them up.

Edited by elliehen at 1:06 pm, Sun 21 Apr

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elliehen (4325 ) 1:05 pm, Sun 21 Apr #3

The above boiled recipe is the only one I make now its so good. Keeps well and makes a ring tin size although I always double it.

Just about positive that's the one kept thinking about it and it was/is a all in bowl one water at end thanks your a gem though may try other as well.

recycling

does it freeze well

Yes it does freeze well slimgym - I love this recipe :-)

This is the chocolate cake recipe that I've been using for the last 10 years. It all goes into one bowl and is very runny but turns out to be a really moist and firm cake.
Ultimate Chocolate Cake
2 cups sugar
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cups cocoa
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp instant coffee
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup boiling water
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, grease & flour pan
Combine sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, soda & salt in large mixing bowl until well blended. Add milk, oil, vanilla & eggs. Beat @medium speed for 3 minutes. Fold in boiling water with spoon. Pour into pan. Bake for about 45 - 50 mins @180.

recycling .

Hmmm interesting to find these recipes. I had given up trying to make 'regular' chocolate cake as, to my belief, it is really only ever any good when it has chocolate in it; how wrong was I. I really hate that whacky/cockeyed cake. Tough call which one to try first, as they are all similar recipes; I think I will try them all, over time.

I just made Mel's secret chocolate cake, (as supplied by cooksessentials) and it is 'muchness of yum'. I made a half recipe, used light muscovado sugar and half ground almonds, in place of flour; being a very wet mixture they floated to the top and made a slight crust.

Versatile recipes which could be used as the basis of desserts; would be great in black forest cake, filled with cream (/ice cream?) and/or slathered with ganache.