Peruvian Chocolate Cake

3 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp. salt

2 1/2 tsp. baking soda

1 cup cocoa

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1 1/4 cups vegetable oil

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1 tsp. vanilla

2 cups whole milk

2 tbsp. vinegar

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3 eggs

2 1/2 cups sugar

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Mix first 4 ingredients.

-Add oil and mix well.

-In a separate bowl mix milk, vanilla & vinegar. (Let stand for 5 min.) Then mix with the previous ingredients.

-Beat eggs in a bowl. Add to batter.

-Add sugar.

Preheat oven @ 350 F. Spray a 10 inch springform pan. Bake for 1 1/2 hours. I place a cookie sheet under pan just in case it overflows.

FROSTING

3 tablespoons cocoa (dissolved in 1/4 cup hot water)

2 cans Dulce de Leche Nestle ( you can find it in the mexican isle, right next to the Sweetened Condensed Milk)

-Mix both. ( If you want to make the lines save some of the Dulce de Leche about 1/4 cup in a sandwich Ziploc bag. Make a little cut with scissors in one corner.) After cake has baked let rest for about 15 min. Slide a knife around the perimeter of cake. Carefully remove the sides of pan and then the bottom. With a piece of thread cut cake in half. (You want to use the cake upside down since that will be the smoothest surface) Cover half cake with frosting, then lay on the top part. Complete frosting the cake. You can leave it like that. But if you want to do the lines...start with a little circle in middle of cake and then go around several times like picture. Then with a toothpick from center out slide the toothpick towards the outer part. Keep doing that all around, trying to keep widths as equal as possible.

Egg Nog Cheese Cake

This recipe is from the Royal Crest Dairy newsletter, so delicous!

Ingredients:
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
3 tbl melted butter
1 cup + 2 tbl white sugar
3/4 cup egg nog
3 (8 oz.) packages cream cheese, softened
3 tbl flour
2 eggs
1 pinch nutmeg
1/4 cup of chocolate chips - melted for top

Directions:
Preheat oven 325 degrees. Combine graham cracker crumbs, 2 tbl sugar and butter. Press into bottom of a 9 inch pie pan. Back in preheated oven for 10 minutes. Cool. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Combine cream cheese, 1 cup sugar, flour and egg nog, process until smooth. Blend in eggs and nutmeg. Pour mixture into cooled crust. Back in preheated oven for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 250 and bake for 45 minutes or until center of cake is barely firm to touch

Once cake is cooled, drizzle chocolate on top for yumminess and decoration (I added this part onto mine and it was so good).

I actually bought a store bought crust and there was enought for extra pie filling. I used the extra for cheese cake cupcakes and made the graham cracker crust for the bottom of the cupcakes cutting the recipe in half. It made about 8 cupcakes.

Enjoy!

CHOCOLATE CHERRY CAKE

1 pkg. chocolate fudge cake mix
1 tsp. almond extract
1 (21 oz.) can cherry pie filling
2 eggs
1/3 c. oil

In a bowl, combine the cake mix, eggs, oil and extract. Add pie filling and mix well. Spread into a greased 10 x 15 x 1-inch baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 18-22 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.


FROSTING

1 c. sugar
1/3 c. margarine
1/3 c. milk
1 c. (6 oz.) semi-sweet chocolate chips

Mix frosting while cake is baking. In a saucepan, combine sugar, milk and margarine. Cook and stir until sugar is dissolved and butter is melted. Remove from the hear; stir in chocolate chips until melted. Pour over WARM cake; spread evenly. Cool compeltely before cutting. Store leftovers in the refrigerator.

Texas Sheet Cake

Cake

Combine the following:
2 C. flour
2 C. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon

Combine in saucepan:
1 cube margarine
1/4 C. Hershey's cocoa
1 C. water
1/2 C. oil

Stir and bring to a boil. Pour over flour mixture and mix well.

Add the following:
1/2 C. buttermilk
2 eggs
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. vanilla

Mix well and pour into greased and floured 13 x 18 large cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for approximately 20 minutes.


Frosting

3 1/2 - 3 3/4 C. powdered sugar (icing sugar)
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 C. cocoa
1 cube margarine
1/3 C. milk
pinch of salt

Melt margarine in a saucepan. Add cocoa and mix well. Add vanilla, salt, milk and powdered sugar and mix to a creamy consistency. Spread over top of cake as soon as it comes out of the oven. Cool before serving.

Orange Chip Cake

Yellow Cake Mix
6 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
Orange Juice
Red food coloring

Prepare cake mix as directed substituting orange juice for the water. Add a few drops of red food coloring for orange color. Mix in chocolate chips. Pour into 9 x 13 cake pan and bake as directed. Frost with homemade chocolate frosting:


HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE FROSTING

3 C. powdered sugar
1/3 C. cocoa
1 cube butter
1 tsp. vanilla
milk (to desired consistency