This is a great recipe from my mother-in-law with a couple changes.
Cream together:
1 1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup softened margarine
Add:
1/4 cup sour cream (or buttermilk)
2 eggs
2 mashed bananas
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix together in a separate bowl, then add to creamed mixture:
1 1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
Then fold in:
1/3 cup dark chocolate chips, chopped into small pieces
Bake in a 5x9 inch pan at 325 for about an hour.
This is a recipe I adapted from the brownie recipe on the back of a Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate baking bar. It's like a Mounds brownie.Preheat oven to 350F.Butter and flour an 8" x 8" baking pan.Melt 2/3 cup (4 oz) Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet chocolate chips and 1/2 cup unsalted butter.Let cool to room temperature.Stir in 1 cup brown sugar, packed and 1 tsp vanilla.Add 2 eggs, mix well.Sift together:1/4 tsp baking powder1/2 tsp salt3/4 cup & 2 Tbsp all purpose flourFold into the chocolate mixture.Stir in 1 1/2 cups sweetened shredded coconut.Pour batter into pan.Bake for 30 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.Try not to eat the whole thing at once.
We make this cake for almost every birthday. My mother-in-law gave me the recipe about 30 years ago and it's been a favorite birthday cake for all of us.
This will make a 9 " square cake. Double it if you have a bigger crowd - you can make two 9" layers, three 8" ones or a 9"x13" cake. Yum!
Marjorie's Black Forest Cake
Combine dry ingredients:
3/4 C and 2 T flour
1 C sugar
1/4 C and 2 T cocoa
3/4 t baking soda
3/4 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
Sift all this together.
In a separate bowl combine:
1 egg
1/2 C milk
1/4 C melted butter
2 t vanilla
1/2 C boiling water
Stir the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients.
Pour into a greased and floured pan and bake at 350 degress for 25 minutes.
Let it cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then remove the cake from the pan and finish cooling on a rack.
Spread a can of chilled cherry pie filling on top and garnish generously with whipped cream.
