Vintage black magic cake

Gin Lee

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Vintage black magic cake

Don't let the ingredients detour you from wanting to create this magnificent chocolate cake. Because it's the condensed tomato soup that oddly adds the magic to this awesome vintage cake. (You honestly can't taste the tomato soup.) The cake turns out super fudgy and really moist.

I am uncertain of where the cake originated from. I found the recipe on a handwritten recipe card that my grandmother wrote years ago. I thought it sounded weird, but definitely wanted to give it a chance. Glad that I did, because it's really delicious. I hope y'all will give it a try too.

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Ingredients:

  • 1-¾ cups self-rising flour
  • 2 cups of granulated sugar (I used Splenda)
  • ¾ cup of cocoa powder
  • ½ cup of unsweetened applesauce, or 2 eggs (I used applesauce)
  • 1 can of tomato soup
  • 1 cup of buttermilk
  • ½ cup of oil (I used canola oil)
  • 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract

Instructions:

In a large bowl, sift the self-rising flour, Splenda, or sugar, and cocoa powder together. Then add the unsweetened applesauce, or eggs, one can of tomato soup, buttermilk, oil, and pure vanilla extract; mix until all the ingredients are incorporated well.

Prepare a 9x13 inch cake pan. Grease the pan well with butter and dust it lightly with flour.

Pour your cake batter into the prepared pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for thirty to forty minutes. Allow the cake to cool, then frost your black magic cake with your favorite chocolate or vanilla frosting.

Serve and enjoy!

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About the author: Gin Lee is a native of Arkansas. She studied at the Institute of Children's Literature. She is an animal rescuer, food critic, organic gardener, food editor, home cook, food blogger, artist, and a complete do-it-yourselfer. Gin Lee is a published author, journalist, and contributor, among other works, and she resides in a rural town in Arkansas with her husband and their fur babies, Highway, Princess, and Stinkpot the turtle. A huge thanks goes out to all for reading, following, and sharing Gin Lee's articles! Thank you! Since Gin Lee lives in a rural area, there's not much local news to cover. So, she covers articles of interest on how-to's about organic gardening, recipes, homesteading, and survival techniques. If those things are of interest to you, then you'll never (hopefully) be disappointed. She tries to cover a wide variety of articles to entertain everyone. Comments are turned off due to rudeness and hatefulness. The world has enough vulgarity, hatefulness, and arrogance without it having any help. Since having the simple courtesy of manners is lacking and sharing words of kindness does not abide in a few people. Those few people ruin what's supposed to be educational and an enjoyable experience for all others. Gin Lee does have children and young adults that are followers. Potty mouths, vulgarity, and hate are not acceptable. Apologies go out to those of you who generally are very sweet and also to Gin Lee's followers who have been a witness to others being rude and malicious. Hopefully, you'll be understanding of the measures that have to be put into place. Please be kind to one another.

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