SOUR MILK CAKE

Aunt Georgie's chocolate cake

Don't cry over sour milk; make a chocolate cake out of it. This cake is from the "Farm Journal's Choice Chocolate Recipes" cookbook, and was originally posted to net.cooks by kathyd@azure. It is moist and rich and does not need frosting Mint chocolate ice cream and a slab of this cake makes an outrageous dessert.

Ingredients

(Serves 1 or more)

1 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp baking cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 cup sour milk
1/4 cup hot water
1 Tbsp vanilla

Procedure

Preheat oven to Sift together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt into mixing bowl.
Add egg, butter, sour milk, hot water and vanilla.
Beat (preferably with an electric mixer) at medium speed for 2 minutes.
Pour batter into a greased 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan.
Bake at for 20 minutes or until it tests done (a toothpick or fork comes out clean). Cool in pan.

Notes

To sour sweet milk, place 1 Tbsp vinegar in a measuring cup and add enough milk to make 1 cup

Rating

Difficulty: easy.
Time: 15 minutes mixing, 20 minutes baking.
Precision: Measure the ingredients.

Contributor

 
Tony Lill 
XIOS Systems Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 
tony@xios.UUCP

Recipe last modified: 14 Apr 87

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