Chocolate/Okie Cake/Brownies Recipe
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Ingredients: For Cake:
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
3-4 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup water
1 cup shortening: butter, oil, margarine or a combination (see below)
½ buttermilk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla (optional)
For Frosting:
½ butter or margarine
3 tablespoons cocoa
⅓ cup milk
1 pound powdered sugar
1 cup chopped nuts
1 teaspoon vanilla
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Directions:Cake:
Preheat oven to 350º. Mix together flour and sugar, then set aside. Heat cocoa, water, and shortening together. Shortening may be all butter, half butter, margarine, and/or shortening to make a cup.) Pour over the flour mixture. Mix together buttermilk, baking powder, vanilla, and eggs and blend with the rest of the ingredients. Bake on greased or parchment lined jelly roll pan or 20 minutes.
Frosting:
Melt together margarine or butter, cocoa, and milk in a pan. Bring to boil and mix in sugar, nuts, and vanilla. Frost cake while warm. |
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Notes: A recipe must be wonderful if a variation was submitted by three different family members! I've consolidated the recipes into one. There was very little difference between the three. Something similar was made by my husband's mother, Barbara, too. In the words of my Auntie Helen, "Try it! You'll love it."
Dianah wrote of her Chocolate Cake, "A family favorite made originally by Lynda Baldwin, it shows up at every Baldwin gathering."
Helen wrote of her Chocolate Brownies, "This has always been a favorite of my family. Makes a lot, and with my three boys that is what I always looked for in a recipe."
Hattie wrote of what she called Okie Cake, "This recipe came from work. A transplanted Okie from Oklahoma, like my husband, gave it to me. I offer it in honor of my husband, Ralph."
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