Chocolate Cake Recipes
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Here's some quick and easy cake recipes for chocolate cakes. Chocolates are probably the easiest and tastiest to make at home. Yes, I know that it's easy and cheap to buy the cake mixes, but there's nothing better than homemade.

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Also see Birthday Cake Ideas and Valentines Day Cake Ideas

$100 Cake Recipe

Sift together:
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
2 tsp soda
3 Tablespoons cocoa
1/2 tsp salt

Mix together good:
1/2 cup salad dressing
1 cup water
1 tsp vanilla
Then add to dry ingredients and bake in cake pans till done at 350.

Easy Chocolate frosting - Add powdered cocoa to sweetened condensed milk till it is of a spreading consistency.
Recipe from an old church cookbook

Chocolate Sheet Cake Recipe

I added the chocolate icing because it is the one that goes with this recipe. This is a great sheet cake for a large group or party. I have been making it for years. If you don't have buttermilk, add a teaspoon of vinegar to a cup of milk and let it sit 5 min.

4 tablespoons cocoa
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk

1 tsp. soda
1 cup cold water
1 stick margarine
1/2 cup salad oil

Boil water, margarine and oil. Pour over flour and sugar and beat till creamy. Add buttermilk, soda and eggs, beat again. Pour into greased and floured 17 x 11 inches. Bake at 400 for 16 to 18 minutes.

Icing
1 stick margarine; 1/4 cup cocoa; 1/3 cup buttermilk; 1 box powdered sugar; 1 tsp. vanilla; 1/2 cup chopped pecans

Boil margarine, cocoa and buttermilk. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, beat and spread on cooled cake. Sprinkle pecans on top or add to the icing and spread.

Check out this recipe for a Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake

and here's another chocolate sheet cake called Devil Food Sheet Cake

This one is called a Chocolate Cookie Sheet Cake and comes with chocolate icing recipe

Quickie Chocolate Cake

Mix:
1 tsp. salt
3 cup flour
2 cup sugar
2 tsp. soda
6 tbsp cocoa

Add to dry ingredients:
3/4 cup oil
2 tbsp vinegar
2 tsp. vanilla
2 cup cold water

Grease and flour pan. Beat together and bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.

Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake

3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 2/3 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups sifted flour
2/3 cup cocoa
1 1/4 tsp soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/3 cup water

Combine butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla in a large mixer bowl. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes. In a seperate bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt. add alternately with water to creamed mixture. Blend just until combined. Pour into two greased and floured 9 inch pans or a 13 x 9 pan.

Bake at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes or until cake tests done in the middle. Cool 10 minutes, remove from pan. Cool completely and frost with Hershey's Buttercream Frosting.

Easy Chocolate Cake

1 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp soda
1 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
3 Tblsp cocoa
1 cup water
1 Tblsp vinegar
6 Tblsp oil
1 tsp vanilla

Combine all ingredients. Bake 325 for 25 minutes

1 Minute Fudge Frosting
2 cups sugar; 1/4 cup whte syrup; 4 Tblsp cocoa; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/2 c milk; 1/2 cup Crisco; 1 tsp vanilla. Boil 1 minute, cool and beat

Prize Chocolate Cake

1/4 cup butter - soft
1/4 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
3/4 tsp soda
1/8 tsp salt
3/4 tsp baking powder
1 3/4 cups milk
3/4 cup cocoa
1 3/4 cup flour

Grease and flour pans, or just oil the bottom of the pan. Mix well in order given after each addition. Bake at 350 for 30 to 35 min. Remove from pans after 10 minutes of cooling. Use a 9 x 13 pan if you like, cook 25 min.

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More Chocolate Cake Recipes!

- Here's a recipe for a chocolate cake called a Sheath Cake!

- Salad dressing cakes do not use any eggs, and turn out nice and moist.

- Salad Dressing Cake Recipe 1

- Salad Dressing Cake Recipe 2

- Mississippi Mud Cake - has been very popular for years!

- Here's another Mississippi Mud Cake Recipe.

- Here's one I've never heard of before.. a Missionary Cake! And here's the recipes... Missionary Cake recipe.... Missionary Cake filling recipe

- Here's a Jelly Roll recipe with Chocolate Cream Filling

- The original recipe for a German Chocolate Cake?

- So easy... Sour Cream Chocolate Cake recipe

- Here's a chocolate cake recipe that uses oil instead of shortening, and here is the chocolate frosting recipe.

- Another recipe for Chocolate cake that uses a Chocolate Creamcheese frosting.

- Chocolate Better Than Sex cake recipe!

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