The Best Gluten Free Chocolate Cake... ever, no joke

So Dear Readers, there I was after one of my historic baking projects (read about it here) with a can of Hershey's Cocoa Powder to use up. On the back of the can was a recipe for Hershey's Perfectly Chocolate Chocolate Cake and Perfectly Chocolate Chocolate Frosting. On a whim I used Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1-to-1 conversion Flour and gave it a try. "Perfect"... that's a mighty big brag.

Many gluten free cakes go crumbly and dry after a day or so. On days four and five we were remarking that the cake tasted fresh and was only just beginning to go dry and crumbly.

Here's the recipe with my tweaks for gluten free baking:

2 cups sugar

1-3/4 cups Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1-to-1 flour

3/4 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa

1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

1 cup milk

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup boiling water

1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two pound loaf pans

2. Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.

3. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks.

Cool completely. Frost with "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING. Makes 12 servings.

For Roomie's Birthday Tea, I used a peanut butter frosting. Further tweaks are needed, but here it is if you want to try your hand.

1 stick of butter-softened

1 tsp Vanilla

1 pound confectioner's sugar

16 oz. peanut butter

 Milk

Soften the butter and blend in the peanut butter and vanilla.

Add the confectioner's sugar by bits.

Add milk by the spoonful to desired consistency. Use little bits, it goes runny fast.

Once again we were enjoying chocolate goodness for almost a week. So, our friends at Hershey aren't just egotists, their Perfectly Chocolate Cake is the best gluten free chocolate cake EVER.