Hurry Up Chocolate Cake Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350. Butter 13X9 cake pan or 2 8 inch round cake pans. Coat with cocoa or cocoa and cinnamon.
• 2. Sift together all dry ingredients
• 3. Blend in oil and buttermilk. Add eggs one at a time. Beat well.
• 4. Add boiling water. (You can substitute 1 cup boiling espresso to make a Capuccino Cake.) Stir well. Don't Panic! The batter will look like chocolate milk. Pour into prepared pan(s). Let rest for 5 minutes before baking.
• 5. Bake for 45 minutes or until knife in center comes out clean. Let cool. Enjoy. Although this cake needs no frosting, it looks great with powdered sugar sprinkled on top.

Steps:

• Frosting choices: Sift icing sugar over or chocolate butter icing or lemon/orange butter icing.
• Simple butter icing- icing sugar, butter, cocoa, tiny bit of milk, for chocolate, just measure amounts that look right and whip them all together.
• Lemon or orange butter icing: the same as chocolate except instead of cocoa, use lemon or orange zest, and a teaspoon of vanilla or a tiny bit of the lemon or orange juice.
• Sift before measuring,cake flour, resift with sugar.
• add soft butter, eggs,milk, salt baking powder and vanilla.
• Beat these ingredients vigorously with a wire whisk or electric beater for 2 or 3 minutes.
• Bake the cake in a buttered 9 x 13 inch pan or in two 8 inch buttered, round layer pans in a moderate oven (350°F) for about 1/2 hour or until tester inserted in middle comes out clean.
• Variations-----------.
• Spice cake: add to flour, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon cloves.
• Chocolate cake: Use 4 tablespoons less flour and add to flour 4 tablespoons cocoa.