Blue Ribbon Chocolate Cake Recipes

THE ULTIMATE CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Cream butter. Gradually add sugar creaming until light and fluffy. Continue for about 5 minutes at medium speed.
• 2. Stir in vanilla, and add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 3. Dissolve coffee granules in boiling water.
• 4. In a bowl, combine flour, salt, cocoa, and baking powder.
• 5. Add flour mixture a little at a time.
• 6. Add alternately with coffee and buttermilk to the dry ingredients mixing as you go. Blending on low speed until just mixed.
• 7. Grease and lightly flour a 10 inch tube pan. Spoon batter into it. Smooth it out.
• 8. Bake in 325 F oven for 1 hour 15-20 minutes (usually 1 hr and 15 min). Here's where it gets tricky. DO NOT OVERBAKE. It will look like it's not quite done on top but the cake will spring back a bit when you lightly push down on it with 2 fingers. If you overcook this it will be dry and not very moist.
• 9. When it comes out of the oven, wait about 5 minutes. Run a knife around all edges and very carefully invert onto a serving plate.
• 10. Trust me when I say all you need to make this complete is a tall glass of milk (not for me ), a good cup of coffee, or a hot cup of tea.
• 11. You can let it cool for about 10 minutes and have a slice (chunk) while it is still warm (is what I do and everyone else in my household or anyone who has tried it). Or let it cool completely and then enjoy. If ya can't wait (none of us can) just dig in as soon as you've inverted it into a plate. Actually, who am I kidding...We don't even wait for it to cool down. I would love to try some kind of frosting w/this but as long as my hubby is still alive and has anything to say about it. It's not gonna happen... lol. You know what they say, "DONT MESS WITH A GOOD THING!"
• 12. NOTE: The time before last I ran out of sugar and cocoa so this is what I did. I had enough white sugar for 1 cup. So to that, I added 2 cups of brown sugar. And, I had maybe about a 1/3 cup of cocoa ... So I added the remainder of the 3/4 cup it called for with instant chocolate fudge pudding. Both ways were scrumptious but the original is best. :)

CHOCOLATE BLUE RIBBON FUDGE CAKE

Steps:

• 1. 1: Cream butter and sugar together. 2: Add eggs 1 at a time mix well. 3: Add 1/2 can Chocolate syrup. 4: Add 1/2 cup flour and baking powder mix lightly. 5: Add Remainig Ingredients. I use nuts for the top. 6 Bake in a Bundt or 11x14 cake pan for 30 to 35 min. 7 Cool and frost with Chocolate Buttercream or Glaze depending on which pan used. I make my own buttercream and place Toasted almond on top.

BLUE RIBBON CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• 1. In large mixing bowl sift together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
• 2. Add eggs, coffee, buttermilk, oil and vanilla. Beat at medium speed for two minutes.
• 3. Pour into a greased and floured 9x13 inch cake pan. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Cool cake before frosting.
• 4. To prepare frosting in a large bowl beat Crisco and butter at high speed until light and fluffy. 3-4 minutes.
• 5. On low speed add meringue powder and extracts. Beat on high 1 minute.
• 6. On low add powdered sugar 1 cup at a time. Scrap bowl to ensure all ingredients combine.
• 7. Add water if needed. This will depend on the humidity.
• 8. When all is combined beat on high speed for 5 minutes. Scrape bowl as needed.

BONNIE'S BLUE RIBBON CHOCOLATE DREAM CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Bake cake according to package directions for a 9X13 inch pan, then poke holes in it with a wooden spoon handle about an inch apart.
• 2. Crush the chocolate bars, reserve 1/4 cup for the top.
• 3. In the microwave, heat up the caramel in a pyrex glass measuring cup until it can be poured easily. (about one minute) Slowly pour the warm topping mixture over the top of the warm cake, letting it sink into the holes, then pour the Eagle brand sweetened condensed milk over it. (Be sure the condensed milk is at room temperature so it will pour.)
• 4. Sprinkle the crushed chocolate bars liberally across the entire cake while still warm. You can do chunks or crumbs. (I like chunks.)
• 5. Let the cake cool completely on a rack in the fridge. Then top with whipped cream frosting--recipe below. Refrigerate and serve right from the pan. Flavors meld the best when allowed to sit overnight.
• 6. Frosting: Whip the 1 1/2 cup of heavy cream and the 1/4 cup of sugar until very stiff. Frost and decorate the top of the cake with some more chocolate toffee bar chunks or pulverized candy, and then add swirls of caramel topping.
• 7. Cooks tip: I use a Devil's Food Cake mix that is 50% less fat and you would never know it! (Every little bit helps!) Enjoy!