My Favorite Chocolate Cake
Believe it or not I’m not a chocolate gal though this recipe of chocolate cake I love, actually brings me a lot of nice memories since my mom would bake this for me on my birthday.
INGREDIENTS
- 2 cups of pancake flour
- 1 cup of Nesquik
- 1 cup of evaporated milk
- 1 cup of canola oil
- 4 eggs
- 1 tablespoon of baking powder
Preparation time: 45 minutes, you will need a mixer, a bundt cake pan, and a measuring cup. Approximate cost per person is around $1.50 depending on local ingredients cost. Place all ingredients in the mixer and mix all together, before pouring the mix into the baking pan spray it with non-stick oil; pour the cake mix into the pan and set your oven at 425 F, when ready place your cake in the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes.
Ingedients
You will know is ready when you start smelling that delicious just baked cake, to make sure is properly cooked take it out of the oven insert a tooth pick if it comes clean the cake is ready. Let it sit out the oven until cold before icing.
For the icing you will need:
1 stick of salted butter creamed and at room temperature
2 cups of confectionary sugar
1 cup of Nesquik
1 spoon of tablespoon of Nescafe or strong instant coffee
Cold milk (2 tablespoons or less)
Roughly cut pecans and maraschino cherries to decorate
Icing consistency
Cake out of the oven
Mix all ingredients until a thick consistency, add the milk depending how thick you would like the icing; if you prefer runny icing add more milk if you want thicker then add less.
When the cake is cold cover with this icing and decorate with pecans and maraschino cherries. This cake is moist and delicious, you can enjoy with iced or hot coffee or tea or a nice glass of cold milk.
Try this recipe, trust me this is my family’s best kept secret you will love it and your family too!
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I love that there’s not a lot of ingredients!!!! I love chocolate cake, and this one seems pretty easy to make.
Honored with your visit and comments, thank you for your support Melanie!
Simple ingredients. I am sure my kids will love this cake. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Eftychia, thank you for stopping by, this cake is simple and easy I’m sure you will score a 10 with your family if you try this recipe. Have a wonderful week!
Adriana,
Que rica se ve esta receta. Acabo de entrar en la onda de hacer roscas, y esta me cae como anillo al dedo. I can’t wait to try your recipe! I will share with you my results! Thank you.
Marco
Hola Marco gracias por visitar este site y por tus comentarios me avisas que tal te fue con mi receta de la Rosca de Chocolate. Saludos!
Wooow!!! I love this recipe! … Brings back so many memories of my childhood. It’s great that you are sharing family recipes and keeping them alive! I never knew how to prepare the icing until now!
So sweet Cecy, this is my most cherished recipe and my favorite, many sweet memories, hugs!