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Moist Chocolate Walnut Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 cups boiling water
  • 1 cup rolled oats
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 2 large eggs, beaten
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • One 12-ounce package chocolate chips
  • 34 cup chopped walnuts (about 4 ounces)

Prep Time:

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Cook Time:

40 minutes

Serves:

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*This recipe is courtesy of Picnics: Delicious Recipes for Outdoor Entertaining by Sara Deseran/Chronicle Books LLC and Jonelle Weaver.

The oatmeal adds a mild, undetectable sweetness, and the brown sugar and melted chocolate chips make it moist and impossible to put down.

To transport, leave the cake in the pan, wrap well with plastic wrap, and slice and serve at the picnic.

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Used with permission of Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco.

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Preparation

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, Grease and flour a 9-by-13-inch cake pan.
  2. In a large bowl, pour the boiling water over the rolled oats. Let stand for 10 minutes.
  3. Add the brown sugar, granulated sugar, and butter and stir until the butter melts.
  4. Add the eggs and vanilla and combine.
  5. In another large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.
  6. Add to the oatmeal mixture and stir until combined.
  7. Add half of the chocolate chips.
  8. Pour the batter into the pan and sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips and the walnuts on top.
  9. Bake for 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake (a part without a chocolate chip) comes out clean.