Best Thirty Minute Cocoa Cake With Quick Cocoa Frosting Recipes

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THIRTY-MINUTE COCOA CAKE



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Number Of Ingredients 11

1 cup butter
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 cup water
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour, stirred and measured
1 teaspoon soda pop
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup walnuts chopped (optional)

Steps:

  • In medium saucepan, combine butter (or margarine), cocoa, and water bring to boil over medium heat, cooking until butter is melted set aside. In large mixing bowl, stir together sugar, flour, soda, and cinnamon. Add cocoa mixture blend. (Save cocoa pan, unwashed, for making Quick Cocoa Frosting.) Beat together buttermilk (or sour milk, see below) and eggs stir into batter. Add vanilla. Pour into ungreased 9x13x2-inch baking pan. Bake at 400 degrees F. for 20 minutes. Five minutes before cake is done, begin to make Quick Cocoa Frosting (recipe in this cookbook). Frost cake as soon as it comes from oven. If desired, sprinkle immediately with chopped nuts. Cool. This moist and delicious cake will stay fresh for days. Note: To make sour milk, measure 1/2 tablespoon vinegar into measuring cup add enough milk to make 1/2 cup. Allow to stand for 5 minutes.

Nutrition Facts : Nutritional Facts Serves

COCOA CAKE



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THIS CAKE is so moist it doesn't need frosting. I simply sprinkle powdered sugar over the top. It's my favorite dessert to bring for potlucks, and there's never a piece left to take home! -Beulah Sak, Fairport, New York

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Desserts

Time 40m

Yield 9 servings.

Number Of Ingredients 10

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons baking cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup canola oil
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup cold water
Confectioners' sugar

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Using a spoon, make 3 wells in the dry ingredients. Pour oil into the first, vinegar into another and vanilla into the third. Slowly pour water over all. Beat on low speed until thoroughly combined (batter will be thin). , Pour into a greased 8-in. square baking dish. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30-35 minutes. Cool in pan on a wire rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 242 calories, Fat 9g fat (1g saturated fat), Cholesterol 0 cholesterol, Sodium 272mg sodium, Carbohydrate 39g carbohydrate (22g sugars, Fiber 1g fiber), Protein 2g protein.

30 MINUTE CHOCOLATE CAKE



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Make and share this 30 Minute Chocolate Cake recipe from Food.com.

Provided by Chef jshaffer

Categories     Dessert

Time 43m

Yield 12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 10

2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup Crisco
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup boiling water

Steps:

  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  • Mix first 6 items.
  • Melt other 4 and add.
  • Pour in a 9x13 pan.
  • Bake in a 350 oven for 38 minutes.
  • That's it. You don't have to grease and flour the pan. You don't have to cream anything. It is so simple there should be a law against it. Just be sure it has cooked through into the middle of the top. It may take a few minutes more or less in your oven. In mine, it takes exactly 38 minutes.
  • You can use this cake as the basis for Better than sex cake, or it will take any icing or frosting.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 370.3, Fat 17.4, SaturatedFat 4.3, Cholesterol 35.7, Sodium 216.8, Carbohydrate 50.7, Fiber 0.8, Sugar 34, Protein 3.9

CHOCOLATE FROSTING I



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Great texture and color as well as taste. Smooth and easily spread, this frosting turns any cake, cookie, or cupcake into something deliciously special.

Provided by Tia the Baker

Categories     Desserts     Frostings and Icings     Chocolate

Time 15m

Yield 12

Number Of Ingredients 5

¼ cup margarine, melted
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
⅓ cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 ½ cups confectioners' sugar

Steps:

  • In a large bowl, beat margarine and cocoa together until combined. Add milk and vanilla; beat until smooth. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar until desired consistency is achieved. Adjust with more milk or confectioners' sugar if necessary.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 188.3 calories, Carbohydrate 38.8 g, Cholesterol 0.5 mg, Fat 4.4 g, Fiber 1.2 g, Protein 1 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, Sodium 47.7 mg, Sugar 36.3 g

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