CHOCOLATE CAKE!! seeking basic easy cake recipe?

I am wanting just a basic cake recipe that i can add stuff to

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  1. Get a box of Betty Crocker Devils Food cake or any other brand, follow directions on box, then add one 8oz container of sour cream, bake cook and frost, you will have a great moist chocolate cake.
  2. Title: Recipe: Chocolate Cake in a Jar
    Board: Cooking Club at Recipelink.com
    From: andy 11-10-2002
    To: ISO: cakes in a jar
    MSG ID: 0063101

    Chocolate Cake in a Jar

    1 stick plus 3 Tbsp. Butter or Margarine
    3 cups White Sugar
    4 Eggs
    1 Tbsp. Vanilla
    2 cups Applesauce, unsweetened
    3 cups White Flour
    3/4 cup unsweetened Cocoa powder
    1 tsp. Baking Soda
    1/2 tsp. Baking Powder
    1/8 tsp. Salt

    Prewash 8 pint-sized wide mouth canning jars (be sure to use the kind that have no shoulders) in hot, soapy water. Rinse well, dry and let them come to room temperature. Grease insides of jar well.

    Beat together butter and half of sugar until fluffy. Add eggs and remaining sugar, vanilla and applesauce. Sift dry ingredients together and add to the applesauce mixture a little at a time: beat well after each addition .

    Pour one cup of batter into each jar and carefully remove any batter from the rims. Place jars in a preheated 325-degree oven and bake for 40 minutes.

    While cakes are baking, bring a saucepan of water to a boil and carefully add jar lids. Remove pan from heat and keep lids hot until ready to use.

    When the cakes have finished baking, remove jars from oven. Make sure jar rims are clean. Place lids on jars, and screw rings on tightly.

    Cakes will slide right out when ready to serve. Jars should be stored in the refrigerator and eaten within 2 weeks or frozen for longer storage.

    Editor's note:
    For cautions and more info regarding safety of jar cakes:
    http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/publications/uga/uga_can_breads.pdf
    MSG URL: http://www.recipelink.com/gm/0/63101
  3. TONI's CHOCOLATE CAKE:
    1/2 cup margarine (softened)
    2 eggs
    1 1/2 cups sugar
    1/2 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
    2 cups flour
    2 teaspoons baking soda
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    1/2 cup milk
    1 teaspoons vanilla extract
    1 cup boiling hot water
    In a large bowl cream together margarine, eggs, sugar and cocoa until fluffy. In another bowl, sift together flour, baking soda and salt; add to butter mixture. Beat in milk and vanilla extract. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or until wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.
  4. Basic Chocolate Cake

    1/2 c Butter; softened
    2 c Sugar
    3 Eggs
    1 1/2 ts Vanilla
    3 oz Unsweetened chocolate;
    .. melted and cooled
    2 c Sifted cake flour
    2 ts Baking soda
    1/2 ts Salt
    1 c Sour cream
    1 c Boiling water

    1. Preheat oven to 350°. Grease & flour 2-9" cake
    pans.

    2. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs; beat until
    light and fluffy. Blend in vanilla and chocolate.

    3. Sift flour, baking soda and salt. Add
    alternately with sour cream to chocolate mixture
    unti smooth and well combined. stir in boiling
    water. (Batter will be thin.)

    4. Bake in prepared pans 35 minutes or until cakes
    test clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove to wire
    rack to cool completely. Frost as desired.
  5. Chocolate Cake
    2 eggs
    1 cup oil
    1 cup buttermilk
    1 cup hot water with 2 tsp.soda
    1 tsp.vanilla
    2 1/2 cups flour
    1 tsp. baking powder
    5 tbsps.cocoa
    2 cups sugar
    Combine all ingredients, beat 2 or 3 minutes. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Moist and good.
  6. MAYONNAISE CHOCOLATE CAKE
    Printed from COOKS.COM

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    2 c. flour
    1 c. sugar
    2 tsp. baking soda
    4 tbsp. cocoa
    1/4 tsp. salt
    1 c. water
    1 c. mayonnaise
    1 tbsp. vanilla

    Sift dry ingredients into a large bowl. Add the water and beat 1 minute. Add the mayonnaise and beat 1 minute. Add the vanilla and beat 1 minute.
    Pour into a greased and floured pan, 13 x 9 inch square for a very high cake. Sprinkle with chopped nuts and chocolate bits for a dandy frosting. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes.
  7. Duncans Hines Double Chocolate
  8. Go to the Betty Crocker website.
  9. Chocolate Cake
    This basic chocolate cake recipe may be used as a base for more ornate cake recipes.

    Ingredients
    1 1/2 cups sorghum flour (I purchase from www.twinvalleymills.com )
    1/2 cup cocoa (e.g. Hershey's)
    1 cup sugar
    1/2 tsp. salt
    1 tsp. baking soda
    1/2 - 1 tsp xanthum gum
    1/2 cup oil
    1/2 cup milk
    1/2 cup hot water
    1 egg
    2 tsp. vanilla
    Directions
    Mix together dry ingredients.
    Add wet ingredients.
    Grease and flour an 8" x 8" pan.
    Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until done.
    May be decorated with frosting or cut into layers for layer cake.


    Chocolate Cake I/Chocolate Cake II/Deep Dark Chocolate Cake
  10. This is a very basic chocolate cake lovely to play around with.

    1/2 c Butter; softened
    2 c Sugar
    3 Eggs
    1 1/2 ts Vanilla
    3 oz Unsweetened chocolate; melted and cooled
    2 c Sifted cake flour
    2 ts Baking soda
    1/2 ts Salt
    1 c Sour cream
    1 c Boiling water

    Preheat oven to 350°. Grease & flour 2-9" cake pans. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs; beat until light and fluffy. Blend in vanilla and chocolate. Sift flour, baking soda and salt. Add alternately with sour cream to chocolate mixture until smooth and well combined. stir in boiling water. (Batter will be thin.)

    Bake in prepared pans 35 minutes or until test clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove to wire rack to cool completely
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