Best Chocolate cake

Best Chocolate cake

From: Kay Gift

In a mixing bowl:

2 cups sugar

2 cups flour

2 eggs

2 heaping tablespoons of cocoa

1 cup canola oil

Once that is blended measure ON TOP of the mixture:

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons salt (or less)

2 teaspoons vanilla

DO NOT STIR YET.

Pour 2 cups boiling water over the whole mixture.  Let it sizzle for about 30 seconds and then beat with a wooden spoon.  Then whisk. 

Pour into a greased 9X13 pan.

Bake for 35 minutes

350 oven.

Pumpkin Bars

Pumpkin Bars

From Gerry DeVille

4 eggs

1 2/3 cup sugar

1 cup canola oil

16 oz. can pumpkin

2 cups flour

2 tsp. baking powder

2 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking soda

Beat together egg, sugar, oil and pumpkin till light and fluffy.  Add dry ingredients.  Mix.

Spread batter in ungreased 15x12x1 baking pan. Bake 350 25-30 minutes (or less).

Frost with:

3 oz cream cheese

½ cup butter

1 tsp vanilla

2 cups powdered sugar. 

Chocolate Oreo Cake

 Chocolate Oreo Cake

Cake:

2 C. sugar                                         2 eggs

1 ¾ C. flour                                       1 C. milk

¾ C. Hershey’s cocoa                    ½ C. oil

1 ½ tsp. baking powder                  2 tsp. vanilla

1 ½ tsp. baking soda                      1 C. boiling water

1 tsp. salt

15 Oreos:  separate, cut cream sides in half.  Reserve remaining cookie sides.

Pre-heat oven to 350.  Prepare two 9 inch cake pans, line with parchment, grease and lightly flour. 

Place halved cream side cookies in one pan- cream side up.

Sift together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. 

Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.

Stir in boiling water.  (Batter will be thin.)   Bake 30-35 minutes.  Cool 10 minutes.  Remove from pans and cool completely. 

Frosting:

½ cup butter, melted

2/3 cup cocoa

3 cups powdered sugar

½ cup milk

1 tsp. vanilla

Stir butter into cocoa. Alternately add sugar and milk, beat to spreading consistency.

Filling:

1/3 cup whipping cream

2 tsp. powdered sugar

small dash vanilla

1/8 C. Oreo cookie crumbs, from reserved Oreo cookie sides. 

Whip cream, sugar and vanilla until stiff.  Gently fold in crumbs. 

Place cake layer with Oreos on the bottom of serving plate.  Frost, then make a dam with frosting around the edge.  Spread filling in center of cake.  Place remaining layer and frost. 

Optional: Cut more Oeros in half and pave around bottom edge of cake.