Homemade Chocolate Cake!

When you don't have any boxes of chocolate cake mix and you are craving chocolate cake, what do you do (if you don't want to go out and buy some)? This is what happened to me, so I went online and found a good recipe for homemade chocolate cake! I searched for "easy chocolate cake" and found Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Cake. Doesn't it sound good? It was good!


Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1 3/4 cups all-purpose floud
3/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa (or you can use another brand... doesn't have to be Hershey's)
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 13x9x2-inch baking pan. Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely. Frost with "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Frosting (recipe below). 10 to 12 servings.

There are different variations listed on the website where I got the recipe from, so you can go there and do whatever you want to do.


"Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Frosting
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
2/3 cup Hershey's Cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spread consistency. Add small amount additional milk, if needed. Stir in vanilla. About 2 cups frosting.

I don't know if it was the powdered sugar we had, but after a few days I thought the frosting tasted a little weird. Maybe I'm not a big fan of powdered sugar. (I might try and find a different recipe for chocolate frosting... if there is one that doesn't use so much powdered sugar, or none at all!) The cake part of it was DELICIOUS though! It was so moist! If I make this again, I would make the cupcakes and not frost them. (Cupcakes are listed under the Variations section on the website.) That's just my suggestion, but you can try it all if you want and see how you like it!