Description
A chocolate cake made by putting dry ingredients into pan first, then placing various ingredients into three scooped out hollows, and pouring cold water over all.
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups cake flour
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- 4 ½ tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ teaspoons distilled white vinegar
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 1 ½ cups water
- ¼ cup butter
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 4 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees (175 degrees C). Spray one 13×9 inch cake pan with cooking oil spray.
- Mix the flour
- white sugar
- 4 1/2 tablespoons cocoa
- baking soda and salt together in a bowl. Pour dry ingredients into the prepared pan. Scoop out 3 holes in the dry mixture. Put the vegetable oil in one hole
- vinegar in the second hole
- and 1 1/2 teaspoons of the vanilla in the third hole. Pour the cold water over the top and stir until smooth.
- Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 20 minutes. Ice cake while it is still hot.
- To Make Icing: In a saucepan over medium heat melt the butter or margarine. Add the cocoa and remove pan from the heat. Stir in the salt
- milk and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix in the confectioners’ sugar until desired consistency is attained. Spread icing over a still hot cake.
Servings: 14