Colonial Innkeepers Pie (Funny Cake)

This is a hundred year old, plus, Pennsylvania Dutch recipe. It is essentially a cake in a pie crust with a chocolate sauce layer in between.

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Prep Time 25 min
Total Time 1 hr 45 min
Servings 8

Ingredients

1: 9

: Chocolate sauce

1: square unsweetened chocolate

1/2: cup water

2/3: cup sugar

1/4: cup butter

1: tsp vanilla extract

: Cake

1 1/4: cups flour

3/4: cup sugar

1/2: tsp salt

1: tsp baking powder

1/4: cup canola oil

1/2: cup milk

1: large egg

3: Tbs nuts, optional

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Directions

1 For sauce: Heat water and chocolate in a saucepan over low heat until chocolate is melted. Add sugar and stirring constantly bring to a boil. Remove at once from heat. Add butter and vanilla; stir until blended. Set aside to cool while making cake batter.
2 For Cake:Preheat oven to 350. Place pie pan on a cookie sheet. Sift dry ingredients into a bowl. Add oil, milk and egg. Beat together well. Pour batter into pie crust. Using a large spoon pour chocolate sauce into spoon letting it fall over onto cake batter. Move spoon around pan while pouring so sauce gets distributed evenly over top of batter. Sprinkle with nuts.
3 Bake for 35-40 minutes until cake tests done with toothpick. Remove from oven and let cool.

EXPERT TIPS

Expert Tips

This recipe is very easy to experiment with. The cake can be any kind of cake you want it to be, such as, chocolate, strawberry, blueberry, pumpkin. The sauce can be changed also to caramel etc.

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