Once Upon a Recipe

I can think of no better way to send out the old and bring in the new than with a really scrumptious chocolate cake. Not just any chocolate cake but a BLACK MAGIC CAKE. For a number of years this recipe was on the box of Hershey's Cocoa. One day, I can't tell you why, I decided to write it down for fear the new box would not have the recipe and I would have thrown out the old. Hence, out with the old and in with the new (a very bad analogy!)

This cake has been a staple in our house for nearly 35 years. I started making it when we lived in Oklahoma and so it continues. Please enjoy!

Black Magic Cake

1 3/4 cups flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup cocoa
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup strong coffee (or 2 teaspoon instant coffee in 1 cup hot water)
1 cup butter or sour milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1t teaspoon vanilla

Combined flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt in large mixing bowl. Add eggs, coffee, buttermilk, or sour mild, oil, and vanilla. Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes. Pour into greased 13"x9" pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.

~sour milk= 1 tablespoon vinegar +milk=1 cup

Cake batter will be watery!!! I have never iced this cake. It is so rich. To decorate, when cool, I dust with powered sugar. It can be served with whipped topping or ice cream.

Enjoy ringing in the New Year. Then start the diet next week. Please as always share one of your favorite stories and the recipe that goes with it. Just attach it to Mr. Linky.

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Thanks be to God!

Baking Wednesday...

There are two scrumptious recipes I am going to make today after I get home from work at noon...I've begun baking on Wednesday! I like to bake and so this is one day when I usually don't have any conflicts. Well, except for my visit with Sister Dorothy on the 1st Wednesday of each month about my travels on the "Road to Providence."

At any rate, here are two recipes I would like to share with you. The first comes from Father Schipp via my dear friend Karen. When he participates on a Cursillo team everyone anticipates this wonderful delight.

Picture by JustCallMeSassy

Peach Crunch Cake

PREHEAT Oven to 350 degrees. Spray 9x11 dish with Pam. Pour in two regular cans of peach pie filling, covering the bottom of the dish. Coverthe peach pie filling with one box of yellow cake mix. Cut into slices 1 1/2 sticks of butter and place over top of cake mix, sprinkle with cinnamon.

Bake for 45 minutes and serve warm with ice cream. A perfect and easy desert.

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The next comes from Cuisine Kathleen. The best Irish Soda Bread I've tasted and so easy to make!




Irish Soda Bread....Kathleen


4 C flour
1 t salt
4 t baking powder
1 t baking soda
3/4 C sugar
2 t caraway seed
1 C raisins
1 egg
1 t vanilla
2 C buttermilk
1/4 stick of soft butter

Sift dry ingredients. Mix in the seeds and raisins. Add buttermilk and vanilla and mix.

Add beaten eggs and soft butter, mix

Put into 2 greased loaf pans, or 1 10 in round. Slit the top with a knife.

Bake at 350 about 30 to 35 for loaf pans, 50 for round.
Brush with butter or milk 10 min before removing from oven.
Check center to see if done, do no over bake..



Kathleen say, "I make mine in a stand mixer, and it can be easily doubled. [And] [y]ou
can omit the seeds.."

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For friend new and old who are wonderful cooks and who are willing to share their secrets

I say, "Thanks be to God!"