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)

150 g sifted flour
200 g sugar
50 ml baking cocoa
5 ml baking soda
2.5 ml salt
1 egg
60 g butter or margarine, melted
250 ml sour milk
60 ml hot water
15 ml vanilla

Procedure

Preheat oven to 175C 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 33 x 22 x 5-cm baking pan.
Bake at 175C for 20 minutes or until it tests done (a toothpick or fork comes out clean). Cool in pan.

Notes

To sour sweet milk, place 15 ml vinegar in a measuring cup and add enough milk to make 250 ml

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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