Chocolate Snack Cake

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour*
1 cup sugar

1/4 cup baking cocoa

1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon white or cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
1 cup cold water
Ice cream or whipped cream, if desired

Directions

Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease bottom and side of 9-inch round pan or 8-inch square pan with shortening; lightly flour.

In a medium bowl, mix flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt. In a small bowl, stir oil, vinegar and vanilla until well mixed. Vigorously stir oil mixture and oil into flour mixture about 1 minute or until well blended. Immediately pour into pan.

Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes. Serve warm or cool with ice cream.

*Do not use self-rising flour.

New Orleans Bread Pudding and Whiskey Sauce

Bread Pudding
1 loaf day old french bread

2 tbs butter
4 cups of milk
3 eggs
1 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of raisins (opitional)
2 tbs of vanilla
1/2tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon

preheat oven to 305 degrees. Butter a 13x9 baking dish. Break bread into chunks. pour milk over bread, when soft, break into smaller bits and let bread absorb all the milk. Beat eggs and sugar together until think and smooth. Stir in raisins, vanilla, nutmeg and cinnamon. Pour mixture over bread and combine ingredients. Pour bread in to baking dish. Place this dish in larger pan filled with 1" of water. Bake for 1 hour or until knife comes out clean.

Whiskey Sauce

8 TBS pf butter
1 Egg
1 Cup of sugar
1Cup of bourbon, rum or brandy

Melt butter in a double broiler. stir sugar and eggs together in a bowl and add to the butter. stir 2-3 minutes until sugar dissolves. remove from heat and cool before adding bourbon, rum or brandy. serve warm.