Funny Cake

What is funny cake?  It's part cake and part pie.  It's a light cake but it's baked in a pie crust.  You pour the batter into the pie crust, cover with a chocolate sauce, when it's done baking, the chocolate sauce is on the bottom of the cake!  With just a few swirls of the chocolate throughout the cake.

 

I don't bake much, but this is one recipe from my Grandmother that I can do!  It took me a few tries but I finally got it right!  I like to make a tad bit extra sauce for the bottom so it has more chocolate sauce. 

 

Funny Cake Recipe

(makes two pies)

 

Part 1:

1 cup sugar          1/2 cup cocoa

1 tsp. vanilla         1 cup hot water

 

Part 2: 

1 1/2 cup sugar          1 cup milk

1/2 cup margarine (I use Imperial margarine, I tried others, this one is the best)                           2 1/2 tsp. baking powder

2 eggs                         1/4 tsp. baking soda

2 1/2 cups flour          2  9" ready-made pie crusts

 

Mix ingredients from part 1 over low heat and stir until sugar dissolves.

 

Mix together sugar from part 2, margarine and 2 eggs.  Add flour and milk, alternatively with baking powder and baking soda.   Mix until blended.

 

Pour part 2 equally into the two pie crusts, pour part 1 over that.  Bake at 400 degrees for 10 mins.  Reduce temperature to 350 degrees and bake for another 30 to 35 minutes.

RWS