Fast and Simple Chocolate Cake Recipe, a perfect last minute dessert or for when you want chocolate cake and want it fast! Mix this cake in the pan, put it in the oven for 30 minutes, and you're done. Nice.
This cake recipe is also called screwball cake, or crazy cake. Its a great cake recipe for kids, its not complicated, and its fun to make. You can't really mess up this cake, except for I almost messed up this chocolate cake while making this video...
This was was the first cake I ever made, I remember a neighbor gave us this recipe, and I liked how you could make it all in the cake pan, no extra bowls, etc. The other neat thing is it uses vinegar and baking soda as a rising agent. Not something you see too often in chocolate cake recipes.
Things to keep in mind when making Chocolate Cake
Make sure your sugar doesn't have lumps in it
Mix the dry ingredients together well. Use a whisk if you like, or a fork.
You don't have to grease the pan. Not sure why, but it works.
Don't overbake the cake, you want it moist.
This cake recipe is pretty flexible, I've made it a bunch of ways, and you can ramp up or down the amount of oil or sugar. Add more water if you take out some of the oil. My oven bakes this at 30 minutes, if you have a convection oven, or one that isn't from a camper trailer, test the cake at 25 minutes, it might be done already.
You can frost this cake, but I'm not big on frosting, I find most frostings too sweet and gets kinda crunchy after a day. At 1 cup of sugar in the cake, that's enough sweet for me.
Does your family have a Screwball Cake Recipe? let us know in the comments below:
Simple Chocolate Cake Recipe - GardenFork.TV
Ingredients
• 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ¾ cup veg oil
• ¾ cup water
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
Cooking Directions
1. Heat Oven to 350F
2. Put all the dry ingredients in an 8 x 8 or 9 x 9 pan.
3. Mix together well, using a whisk or fork if you like
4. Make a well or hole in the middle of the dry ingredients
5. Add the wet ingredients in to the well.
6. Mix the wet into the dry until it looks like chocolate cake batter
7. Bake on the middle rack of the oven. Check at 25 minutes, you want it moist, not dry.
8. In our oven, this bakes in 30 minutes, a convection oven may be faster.
Eddie
Hay Eric, This is the most simple cake yet and taste great also. I have a pineapple angel food cake that just as simple
Eric Gunnar Rochow
neat, i'd like to get the recipe! eric.
Lauren Schexnider
Used Mexican chocolate and cinnamon for more flavor. It was really good!
Hoss
Looks great! Where are the links to the other food videos?
Jim
Even simpler bread/cake (chocolate or any other flavor)
From my sis's facebook page - I haven't tried it, but it looks interesting!
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ICE CREAM BREAD Seriously? Only 2 ingredients!
Who out there has ever made ice cream bread? If you haven't, what are you waiting for? You use only two ingredients and two steps. All you have to do is mix self-rising flour with softened ice cream of choice and bake. Poof! You have bread!
You need ice cream that is not sugar free or low fat...just regular full fat ice cream. This one is made with just chocolate but just imagine how awesome a loaf of Ben and Jerry's Rocky Road or Cherry Garcia bread could be. I have made it with Chunky Monkey and it is delicious. I will include that recipe too so you can try it. Go with bold flavors of ice cream such as peanut butter or butter pecan. Don’t forget, you can also add extra ingredients into the mix to make it less plain and more flavorful. Experiment and have fun with it!
Ice Cream Bread
2 cups of your favorite ice cream, softened
1 and 1/2 cups of self rising flour
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour an 8×4 inch loaf pan. Mix the ice cream and flour together in a bowl just until combined. Smooth it out so it looks even. Bake for 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool for a while and then serve.
Chunky Monkey Ice Cream Bread (2 loaves or 1 large loaf)
2 pints Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey, softened or melted
3 cups self-rising flour
1 very ripe banana, chopped
1 chocolate bar, chopped
Handful of walnuts, chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour bread pan, or line with parchment paper. Mix melted ice cream and flour until well combined. Add chocolate, banana and nuts. Pour into prepared bread pan. Bake for 45 minutes per loaf or 60-90 minutes for a larger double loaf. If the top starts to brown too much, cover it with aluminum foil and continue to bake. The bread
is done when a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Toni
Tried this a couple days ago but substituted coffee for the water and still can't believe how delicious and easy it was! Love the video's! Look forward to trying the new squash chili recipe next!