Fudge Cake

I started working on a five generation cookbook several years ago in my spare time. It still isn't finished. Does that tell you anything?

Anyway, I have started working on it again. I am using Blurb and will publish it through them. I went to work on it right after Christmas and found the book that I thought I had almost done had a glitch. All the recipe titles were there, but the actual recipes were gone. I almost cried. When I really started looking at it I saw it with new eyes and decided to reformat the whole thing.

Last week my mom sent me a whole package of recipes from my great grandmother, my grandmother and herself. As I was typing them in I was so intrigued by this one I had to make it.

Fudge Cake

Cream together 1 T butter and 3/4 cup of sugar.

Sift together:

1 c flour

1/4 t salt

1 t baking powder

1 1/2 T cocoa

Add dry ingredients to sugar mixture alternating with 1/2 cup milk. Pour into buttered pan (oblong baking dish). Sprinkle top with 1/2 c chopped nuts.

Mix well: 1/2 c white sugar, 1/2 c brown sugar, 1/4 c cocoa. Sprinkle this on top of cake batter.

Pour: 1 1/4 cups boiling water over all the cake. Bake in 350 oven.

 

I have to say this turned out much better than I thought it would. It was like a modern molten lava cake. It was so easy, I will definitely make it again. Maybe for Valentines. I took this one to work.

The original recipe didn't give a dish size. I did mine in a Pyrex that was about 8"x6". You could do it in a square 8"x8" too I think.

I think this was a depression cake recipe. It has no eggs and almost no butter.