The Easiest, Tastiest Chocolate Cake Ever...

Do you love Chocolate cake but can't seem to wrap your head with the complicated recipes that you encounter for it? Well, lemme share you our family's favorite chocolate cake that is a cinch to make. And to think I found it at the back of the Hershey's Cocoa Powder can.


This recipe is easily adaptable for making cupcakes. Just bake them from 10-15 minutes or until the toothpick comes clean when you insert it in the middle of one cupcake.



Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1 & 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa powder
1 & 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 & 1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup boiling water
2 tsp. vanilla extract

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans. Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl. In another bowl combine eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on med. speed 2 minutes. Pour wet mix into dry ingredients bowl and blend until well mixed. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin).

2. Pour into pans and bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes, remove from pan to wire racks. Cool completely. Frost with chocolate frosting or any favorite frosting flavor.

Chocolate Frosting

1 stick butter or margerine
2/3 cup Hershey's cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Beat on medium speed with mixer and alternately add powdered sugar and milk. Beat unting spreading consistency. Add more milk. Stir in vanilla. Makes about 2 cups of frosting.

Note: This recipe doesn't require you to cream butter or use chocolate baking squares. It is THAT simple. In some occasions I didn't even use a mixer, just my wire whisk and some elbow grease. :)