A great chocolate cake to serve for a birthday or namesday
during the Great Fast.
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3 c. flour |
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2
c. sugar |
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2
tsp. baking soda |
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1
tsp. salt |
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6
T. cocoa |
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3
T. vinegar |
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2/3
c. vegetable oil or applesauce |
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1
tsp. vanilla |
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2
c. water |
Mix well all the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking
soda, salt and cocoa. Add all the liquid ingredients: vinegar, oil or
applesauce, vanilla and water. Mix well. Pour into an ungreased 9 x 13-inch
baking pan. Bake in 375º oven for 35-40 minutes, or until cake tester inserted
in center comes out clean. When cake has cooled, dust cake with powdered sugar,
or ice with frosting.
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2 c. confectioners sugar |
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4
tsp. cocoa |
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2
T. solid vegetable shortening (Crisco) |
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1
T. apple or orange juice (or more as needed) |
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Chopped
nuts (optional) |
With electric mixer, mix together sugar, cocoa and Crisco.
As needed, add apple or orange juice. Add enough to make spreadable over cooled
cake. Top with chopped nuts, if desired.
Taken from Taste & See: American Orthodox Cooking, Franklin, Tenn.: St. Ignatius Antiochian Orthodox Church AOCWNA, 1999.
© 1999 by St. Ignatius Antiochian Orthodox Church AOCWNA.
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