Moist Chocolate Snack Cake Food

HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE SNACK CAKE

Steps:

• In a bowl, beat water and butter until butter is melted. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to the egg mixture. Beat for 2 minutes. , Pour into a greased 8-in. square baking pan. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar.

THE BEST CHOCOLATE SNACK CAKE

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees F.
• Set oven to second-lowest rack.
• Grease an 8 x 8-inch square baking pan.
• In a bowl mix together the first 6 dry ingredients.
• In another bowl whisk the water or milk with oil, egg, vinegar and vanilla; add to the dry ingredients and mix until combined.
• Transfer/spread into prepared baking pan.
• Sprinkle chocolate chips and walnuts over batter, swirl with a knife to mix into batter.
• Bake 30-35 minutes or until cake tests done.

ONE PAN CHOCOLATE SNACK CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Thoroughly mix dry ingredients in an ungreased 8 x 11" pan. Make 3 wells in the dry mixture and pour the vegetable oil in one, the vanilla in a different one and the vinegar in the last one. Pour the cold water over all and stir with fork until well blended.
• Bake for 30 minutes. Cake is done when center springs back when lightly touched. Do not test with a toothpick or knife.

EXTRA MOIST CHOCOLATE FUDGE SNACK CAKE

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease an 8 x 8-inch baking dish.
• In the microwave, melt the chocolate and butter for about 1 minute, then whisk or stir until smooth; set aside.
• In a bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt; set aside.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine the buttermilk, applesauce, oil, vanilla and egg, then add to the dry ingredients along with the chocolate mixture; mix until combined.
• Add in mini chocolate chips and nuts (if using).
• Pour into prepared baking dish.
• Bake for about 40-45 minutes, or until cake test done.

CHOCOLATE SNACK CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom and side of 9-inch round pan or 8-inch square pan with shortening; lightly flour.
• In medium bowl, mix flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt. In small bowl, stir oil, vinegar and vanilla until well mixed. Vigorously stir oil mixture and coffee into flour mixture about 1 minute or until well blended. Immediately pour into pan.
• Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes. Serve warm or cool with ice cream.

BEST MOIST CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan. Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together the margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the milk, mixing just until incorporated. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool.

SKINNIER MOIST CHOCOLATE SNACK CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Coat bottom of 9-inch X 13-inch baking pan with cooking spray.
• Throw all the stuff in a big, deep bowl and beat the heck out it with electric mixer; medium speed for 2 minutes. (If you use the optional chips, stir them in last unless you want them pulverized.).
• Spread the batter into prepared pan. Batter will be thick, sorta like a brownie batter.
• Bake for 35 minutes or till top springs back when touched, tester comes out clean and cake starts to pull away from sides of pan.
• NB - I tried something I read in an America's Test Kitchen cookbook - rotated the pan at half-time (~16 minutes). Supposedly, professional bakers do this to achieve an even rise. I do have a level-er than normal-for-me cake so I must have been baking in the dark for the past 40 years. ;-).
• I like it best still warm, straight up without icing or any decorative frou-frou. Feel free to pimp it up if you want to.

MOIST CHOCOLATE SNACK CAKE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat the sugar, water, oil, vinegar and vanilla until well blended. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into sugar mixture until blended. , Pour into a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. , Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired.