Monday, February 2, 2009

The Terrible Cake!!!

A Pittsburgh Steeler Super Bowl Bash - would not be complete without a Terrible Cake!! I'd like to think it somehow contributed to the Steeler becoming Super Bowl Champs?!?! Excuse my poor art skills and trust me - the taste... Good! Thanks to Erin's Food Files for the recipe!



The Terrible Cake: AKA - Oreo-like Cake

Hershey's Deep Dark Chocolate Cake
from Hershey's Recipes, as seen on Erin's Food Files

Ingredients
2 cups sugar
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup Hershey's Special Dark cocoa
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water
6 Oreos crushed

Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round pans or a rectangular 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 electric mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.

Bake 30 to 35 minutes (I baked closer to 35 to 40 minutes because I used a rectangular pan) or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.

Frost, then top with crushed Oreos (I omitted oreos & 'steeler'ed' mine out!)

White Chocolate Frosting
Source: Erin's Food Files

Ingredients

around 4-6 oz white chocolate
1 stick butter
1 tsp vanilla
3-4 cups powdered sugar
a couple splashes of milk

Directions
Melt chocolate over double boiler. Meanwhile cream butter. Once chocolate has melted add to butter. Continue to mix at low to medium speed while adding vanilla. Gradually add in milk and sugar until frosting reaches desired consistency.

Yellow food coloring helped make ours the desired team colors!

1 comment:

ErinsFoodFiles said...

YAY! Haha.. The terrible towel! That's great. I'm glad you like the cake! I know I love it.