There are a few things to keep in mind when making this recipe.
- Only use a glass 9X13 cake pan.
- Do not use any metal utensils and yes, you have to mix by hand
Ingredients:
- 3 C. flour
- 2 C. sugar
- 6 T. cocoa
- 1 1/2 tsp. soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2/3 C. oil
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 2 tsp. vinegar
- 2 C. water
Cake Instructions:
- Sift flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Then sift again into the cake pan (do not grease). Then sift again into the bowl and one more time into glass cake pan.
- After sifting 4 times, make 3 wells in mixture in cake pan.
- Add the vanilla into one of the wells, the vinegar in the second well and the oil in the third well. The oil will spill over and that's just fine.
- Pour the water around the edges and mix with rubber spatula until thoroughly mixed like a cake mix.
- Bake in a 350 degree oven for approximately 30 minutes or until toothpick
inserted in cake comes out clean.
Cupcake Instructions:
- Sift flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Then sift again into another bowl.
- Repeat this one more time (it should be sifted 4 times)
- Make 3 wells in mixture in the final bowl.
- Add the vanilla into one of the wells, the vinegar in the second well and the oil in the third well. The oil will spill over and that's just fine.
- Pour the water around the edges and mix with a rubber spatula until thoroughly mixed like a cake mix.
- Pour mixture into cupake liners in a cupcake pan and bake at 350 degrees for approximately 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted in cake comes out clean.
Marshmallow Frosting
- 5 T. Flour
- 1 C. milk
- 1/2 C. butter or margarine
- 1/2 C. shortening
- 1 C. sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Instructions:
- Whisk the milk and flour in a saucepan on stove.
- Cook until it becomes a pasty substance (like paste glue)...LOL
- Take off heat and cool in refrigerator. (Cover with plastic wrap, so no skin forms)
- Make sure it is cold to the touch before adding to the rest of the ingredients.
- After the paste has cooled coming the sugar, butter or margarine, vanilla and paste and beat for at least 5 minutes.
- Spread on cake