CHOCOLATE PICNIC CAKE: Retro Ad with Recipe

Summertime and the living is easy! Time for a Picnic. Here's a Retro Ad with Recipe for Chocolate Picnic Cake. I love the directions, especially concerns for baking in warm weather (not a lot of air-conditioned houses at the time this appeared). This is a great basic cake recipe for a picnic or any time!

CHOCOLATE PICNIC CAKE: National Picnic Day

Today is International Picnic Day! One can never have too many recipes for Chocolate Cake.This Chocolate Picnic Cake is great any time. As you know if you read this blog, I don't usually add icing to my cakes, and this recipe is no exception, especially for a picnic. Less mess. This recipe is slightly adapted from Epicurious, and it's so easy. It will become your go-to picnic cake!

CHOCOLATE PICNIC CAKE

Ingredients 

Dry ingredients
2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup cocoa
1 3/4 cups sugar

Moist ingredients
1 cup oil
1 cup hot coffee
1 cup milk
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

Directions
Sift dry ingredients together. Add oil, coffee, and milk. Mix at mediun speed for 2 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat 2 minutes more.
Bake at 350 degrees in greased and floured Bundt pan for 45 minutes or a 9 x 13" pan for 40 minutes. Let sit 25 minutes before taking out of pan.

CHOCOLATE PICNIC CAKE: National Picnic Day!

Today is International Picnic Day! This Chocolate Picnic Cake is great any time. As you know if you read this blog, I don't usually add icing to my cakes, and this recipe is no exception, especially for a picnic. Well I always take the least messy foods. This recipe is slightly adapted from Epicurious, and it's so easy. It will become your go-to picnic cake!

CHOCOLATE PICNIC CAKE

Ingredients 

Dry ingredients
2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup cocoa
1 3/4 cups sugar

Moist ingredients
1 cup oil
1 cup hot coffee
1 cup milk
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

Directions
Sift dry ingredients together. Add oil, coffee, and milk. Mix at mediyn speed for 2 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat 2 minutes more.
Bake at 350 degrees in greased and floured Bundt pan for 45 minutes or a 9 x 13" pan for 40 minutes. Let sit 25 minutes before taking out of pan.