Moms Quick Cocoa Cake Recipes

COCOA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Using a spoon, make 3 wells in the dry ingredients. Pour oil into the first, vinegar into another and vanilla into the third. Slowly pour water over all. Beat on low speed until thoroughly combined (batter will be thin). , Pour into a greased 8-in. square baking dish. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30-35 minutes. Cool in pan on a wire rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar.

MOM'S QUICK COCOA CAKE

Steps:

• Mix sugar, eggs, oil, soda. Then add cocoa, flour and milk.
• Bake at 350 about 30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cake.
• Makes 1 9x13 pan or 2 round pans, or 24 cupcakes.

MOM'S BUTTERMILK CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• For the cake: Lightly grease a 9-by-13-inch cake pan with butter. Combine the flour, sugar and baking soda in the bowl of a stand mixer or mixing bowl. Combine the butter, cocoa and 1 cup water in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil while mixing. Add the cocoa mixture to the flour mixture, along with the buttermilk eggs and vanilla, and beat for 3 minutes. Pour into the prepared cake pan and bake until firm to the touch and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes in the pan before turning out on a rack to cool completely.
• For the frosting: Make the frosting as soon as the cake is out of the oven. Combine the butter, buttermilk and cocoa in a small saucepan and bring to a boil while mixing. Combine with the confectioners' sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer and beat until smooth. Spread the frosting evenly on the cake.

MOM'S CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Thoroughly grease a 10-inch fluted tube pan. Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking powder in a bowl until thoroughly combined.
• In a large bowl, mix the melted margarine, sugar, milk, eggs, and vanilla extract; beat the flour mixture into the margarine mixture with an electric mixer set on Low until the batter is smooth. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the top of the cake forms a crust and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Cool cake in pan on wire rack for 10 to 15 minutes before removing pan, then allow cake to cool completely.

MOM'S CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, stir chocolate in boiling water until melted; cool for 10 minutes. , In a bowl, cream shortening and brown sugar. Beat in egg yolks and chocolate mixture. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Gradually beat in water, nuts and vanilla. , In a small bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form; fold into batter. Pour into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack., In a bowl, cream butter. Combine sugar and cocoa; gradually add to butter with vanilla, salt and enough milk to achieve desired spreading consistency. Frost cake.

MY MOM'S CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour an 8 inch square pan.
• In a large saucepan, melt together the shortening and cocoa. Remove from heat and stir in sugar and egg. Mix buttermilk with baking soda, salt and vanilla, then blend into chocolate mixture. Beat in flour. Stir in hot water. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool.

MOM'S ULTRA QUICK YELLOW CAKE AND CHOCOLATE " DIP"

Steps:

• CAKE: Preheat a 9x13 pan. In a bowl, stir together all ingredients. (No need to do the wet ingredients first then dry.).
• Pour into the pan and bake until a toothpick comes out clean, about 30 minutes.
• DIP: In a med. saucepan, begin to melt the butter. As it melts, add the remaining ingredients, stirring well to combine. Bring to a boil and boil one minute, stirring while it boils. Remove from heat.
• NOTE: It helps to wait until the cake is done to make the dip. The cake will still be warm. Cut that cake slice in half and smother it with the dip and enjoy!

MOM'S EASY COCONUT CAKE

Steps:

• prepare cake according to package directions.
• Combine milk, sugar or Splenda,and 1/2 cup coconut in saucepan . Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 1 minute.
• Poke holes in cake with a fork.
• Spoon mixture over warm cake and allow to cool completely.
• Fold half of the remaining coconut into whipped topping and spread over cake. top with the remaining coconut and refrigerate.

MY MOM, "DUWANNA'S COCOA CAKE"...BY CIN

Steps:

• Her Cake: preheat oven to 350°F Mix together well, pour into greased and floured 9x13" baking pan. Bake about 20 minutes, or so. When baked remove from oven and poke holes in the cake with a wooden spoon, (so hot frosting will sink into cake).
• Her Frosting: Bring butter, cocoa and milk to a boil; add powdered sugar and vanilla then beat until smooth. Spread warm frosting over hot cake right out of the oven, serve warm (best served with Chocolate Ice Cream when you have it). *******************
• Story of Mom's Cake by: Cindy (Poling) Strawser written in 2007: I won 1st place for both my story and Mom's Recipe in a contest "Love You Mom". It was published in the...'EXTREME WOMAN MAGAZINE'; Mothers Day 2007
• "Duwanna's Cocoa Cake" This is a recipe of a cake and frosting that was my Fathers favorite. When we were living on the Farm...in the early 50's. I can remember my Mother baking this cake every night for supper. My Fathers favorites were ''Breakfast, and Dessert after Supper". When we moved to the Farm at Hickory Creek we moved into a house that was built to be a Church house. It had no running water inside, but had a well outside the back door. Therefore it had no indoor bathroom either, just a ''3-hole'' outhouse. It did have electricity though.
• Our bedrooms were the 3-Sunday School rooms, the Sanctuary was our living and dining room, the only room with heat), the kitchen was put in the Choir room. I was about 9 by the time Daddy fixed a pump in the kitchen, hooked to the well out back, and put a bathroom in the room that used to be the Preachers office. The house was full of love...and people. There was Dad, Mom, my Brother, Dads Mother, Moms Father and Mother and me.
• My Mother got up early and made us bacon, eggs, biscuits and gravy every morning. Saving the bacon drippings to bake her cake every evening. Every night when Mom put supper on the table she'd put her ''CoCoa'' cake in the oven, so it would be done when we finished eating. She'd frost it right out of the oven and we'd have that wonderful moist warm cake every night. My Dad loved all things chocolate...he'd say, "I want my chocolate cake with chocolate ice cream and I prefer it in a brown bowl". My Moms smile would go from ear to ear as she beamed.
• If you make this humble cake, I hope you enjoy it as much as my family did.