Mahogany Cake recipe

All Recipes Dessert Recipes Cakes Sheet Cake Recipes

Ingredients

2 cups buttermilk
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups white sugar
2 ½ tablespoons butter, softened
2 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 ½ tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

Nutrition Info

176.9 calories
carbohydrate: 35.9 g
cholesterol: 23.4 mg
fat: 2.4 g
fiber: 0.7 g
protein: 3.5 g
saturatedFat: 1.3 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 169.3 mg
sugar: 21.3 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x12-inch baking pan.

  2. Stir buttermilk and baking soda together in a bowl until dissolved and foaming.

  3. Beat sugar and butter together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Beat the first egg into butter mixture until completely blended, beat in the second egg until incorporated.

  4. Whisk flour and cocoa powder together in a bowl. Beat flour mixture, alternating with buttermilk mixture, into creamed butter mixture using an electric mixer until batter is smooth. Pour batter into the prepared baking pan.

  5. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes. Cool cake for 30 minutes.

Recipe Yield

20 servings

Recipe Note

Original recipe from my grandmother Sallie Ayers Kelly. It is a depression-era or before recipe. One of the simplest cake recipes I have tried. Cool cake before frosting.

Do you like the recipe? Share this tasty recipe!

Alternatives to this recipe

See more alternatives
All Recipes - More

All Recipes - Recipe Tags: Mahogany Cake Recipe, simple recipe Mahogany Cake, recipe Mahogany Cake, recipe Mahogany Cake, Mahogany Cake recipe, recipes , recipes online , online recipes , recipe , cooking , cookbook , new recipes , best recipes , dessert recipes top recipes , cooking recipes , best lunch recipes , recipe book , meat recipes , healthy recipes , cooking , toprecipes , best recipe mahogany, , prima recipes , baking , tasty recipe best recipes