Photo: Chocolate Sybil Cake Recipe
Ingredients
Cake:
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 (16-ounce) can chocolate syrup (recommended: Hershey's)
Frosting:
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup evaporated milk
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 13 by 9 by 2-inch pan.
For the cake: Using an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together in another bowl. Add to creamed mixture, continuing to beat. Add vanilla and chocolate syrup to batter and mix well. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Just before cake is done, prepare frosting.
For the frosting: Put butter, chocolate chips, sugar and evaporated milk in a saucepan over medium heat and bring to a boil. Stirring ingredients together, boil for 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and nuts. Pour over warm cake.
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By kittytania
on January 19, 2012
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i was craving a chocolate dessert one night and found this. i modified several things. i wanted something so bad that i scraped the bottom of the barrel of my ingredients to make it. for starters i used a 9 x 9 pan. so i had to cook it for 35 min. i didn't have enough butter and barely enough sugar. therefore the frosting had less sugar like many other reviews suggested. success. for the frosting i used milk. still great. most importantly, i realized i had no chocolate syrup! how was i to make a chocolate cake sans chocolat? i scoured the internet for a recipe. cocoa powder, sugar, and water. boil it up and its syrup. i added that in this recipe. i then realized that i never actually calculated how much syrup it made and it was too late, it was already mixed with the rest. luckily for me, the 1.5 cups of water i added for the syrup is just under 16oz. result of my cake....FANTASTIC!
completely satisfied my craving. chocolate cake for breakfast? i think so!
By bellecat
on September 15, 2011
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I wanted to make my husband dinner complete with dessert when I came across this recipe. He's the cook in the family. Anyway, I made this cake and he loved it. I also make this cake for office parties and it's always a hit. I made it around Thanksgiving last year for an office luncheon and when we had our Christmas party, my supervisor specifically requested that I make it again. It's pretty easy to make and it really is delicious. It's definitely a keeper.
By jacquettaalexander
Forestville, MD
on September 09, 2011
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It was sooo delicious! But all that chocolate is no good on the tummy, especially when you want to eat more than one piece at a time. I substituted the evaporated milk with regular milk and it still turned out delicious. Looks nice too!
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