Ho-Ho Cake

You remember those little “Ho-Hos” (by Hostess) from when you were a child? They were like little chocolate “jelly” rolls with cream filling. Well, at some point (prior to High School, because I used to make this when it was our turn to bring treats to youth group), I ran across this recipe. It’s a 9×13 chocolate cake that reasonably resembles Ho-Hos. My guess is that I originally found it in the “Lester Cookbook” (the best “community” cookbook ever made!)

Now-a-days, I occasionally make it for funerals, which is why I pulled the recipe out this time. It always goes over well and several people asked me for the recipe so I thought I’d just put it up. If you want a printable version, you can download the .pdf here.

Whatever the resemblance, what’s not to like about a cake that has as much sugar in it as flour?! Be a bit careful baking it; if you over bake, the cake gets a bit dry – still tastes good though!

Ho-Ho Cake

Cake

Preheat oven to 325º.
Grease and flour 9×13 pan.
Mix Sugar, Flour, Salt and Cocoa in large pan.
Boil Water, Margarine, Oil for 1 minute.
Add boiled liquids to dry ingredients.
Mix in Eggs, Sour Milk, Baking Soda, Vanilla. Beat Well.
Pour into pan and bake at 350º for 40 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
Cool cake before putting on other layers.

White (middle) Layer

Dissolve Sugar in warm Milk, Water and Vanilla; beat with mixer.
Add shortening. Beat 5 minutes.
Add Powdered Sugar. Beat 5 minutes.
Spread over cooled cake. (Important that the cake is cooled or the white layer will melt!)

Chocolate frosting (top layer)

Bring Sugar, Milk & Margarine to boil. Boil for 1 minute.
Remove from heat and add Chocolate Chips.
Mix well until Chocolate Chips are completely melted and mixture is smooth.
Cool mixture. (Very important or the white layer will melt!)
Drizzle over white topping.

Enjoy!

Grace and Peace,
`tim

EDT: the blog copy was missing flour (the .pdf version was accurate).