Black Joe Cake
Categories [cake]Ingredients
The cake batter (can be found on the back of Hershey Cocoa’s box): * 2 cups sugar * 1 3⁄4 cup all-purpose flour * 3⁄4 cup Hershey’s Cocoa * 1 1⁄2 tsp baking powder * 1 1⁄2 tsp baking soda * 1 tsp salt * 2 eggs * 1 cup milk * 1⁄2 cup vegetable oil * 2 tsp vanilla extract * 1 cup hot coffee (only substitution of the Hershey recipe)
The icing:
- 1⁄2 cup shortening
- 1⁄2 stick of butter
- 3⁄4 cup cream cheese
- 1 box 10x powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3⁄4 cup peanut butter
Directions
- Heat oven to 350.
- Grease and flour 2 nine-inch baking pans.
- Combine dry ingredients in large bowl.
- Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla.
- Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
- Stir in hot coffee.
- Batter will be thin.
- Pour in pans.
- Bake 30 to 35 minutes until toothpick check is clean.
- Cool 10 minutes and remove cakes from pan.
*This recipe makes more then the 2 nine-inch, so I use 3 eight-inch pans. If you don’t have 3 eight-inch pans, use the 2 nine-inch pans and make a few cupcakes with the remaining batter.
Icing
- Just mix these ingredients together slowly in order they are listed, spread on cakes when cool.