Cockeyed Cake With Sugar Topping

"Moist delicious chocolate cake that tastes like a brownie. Its so easy make put everything in one pan."
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
14
Yields:
1 Cake
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ingredients

  • 1 13 cups flour
  • 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 12 teaspoon salt
  • 5 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1 tablespoon vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup cold water
  • Sugar Topping

  • 4 tablespoons softened butter
  • 23 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons milk or 2 tablespoons cream
  • 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
  • nuts, are (optional)
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directions

  • Pour flour into the sifter, add to it the cocoa, soda, sugar and salt; sift this into a greased square pan, about 9x9x2 inches. Now make 3 holes in the dry mixture. Into one, pour the oil, into the next, the vinegar; into the last, the vanilla. Now pour the cold water over it all. You'll feel as if you are making a mud pies, but beat with a spoon until it's nearly smoth and you can't see the flour.
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Then take the cake out and let is cool slightly. Do not turn the oven off !
  • Sugar Topping: Mix all topping ingredients together in a bowl. Then spread on cake and put back into the oven till the frosting bubbles on the whole top of the cake.

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Reviews

  1. Yum! Yum! and Yum! This will be printed out and put in my keeper recipe book. Very good chocolate taste.
     
  2. This was totally unbelievable - addictive and chocolatey and EASY !!!! How is it I have only discovered it now when it seems this cake has a history going back as far as the Depression ?????????
     
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