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A Tribute to Mother’s Day

May 9, 2011 By Cynthia Ferich

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Happy Mother’s Day

A “Mother Moment”…

As my grandmother and I captured our family’s collection of recipes, what was a pinch became a teaspoon, and what was a handful became a cup.

We gathered for hours in the sharing and creating reminiscence of life long ago, and dreams of our future generations.  Our time connecting to one another was real, simple and healthy, as we celebrated a chapter in our lives and a book was written…

In dedication to moms and dads everywhere, and in honor of my mom, I share my mom’s favorite chocolate cake recipe. 

 

Mom’s Texas Sheet Cake  Recipe found on Page 146 “MaMa Mia Cucina~A Flavor of Good Food and Good Family” By:  Cynthia Goch

Mom’s Texas Sheet Cake

Cake:

2 sticks of margarine

1 cup water

4 tablespoons cocoa

2 cups flour

2 cups sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cups sour cream

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 eggs

Icing: 

Boil 1 stick of margarine

4 tablespoons cocoa

6 tablespoons milk

1 pound box of powdered sugar

1 teaspoon of vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a jellyroll pan and set aside.  In a saucepan, combine and melt margarine, water, and cocoa.  Cool slightly.  With an electric beater, combine with remaining ingredients and spread batter into jellyroll pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 18-20 minutes.  Meanwhile, prepare icing using an electric beater, and spread over warm cake.

My mom loves chocolate!  This is, I think, her favorite.  She has been making this cake for as long as I can remember, and brings it wherever she goes!  It is a moist and easy cake to make.

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About Cynthia Ferich

After writing and self-publishing “MaMa Mia Cucina” in 2007, Cynthia's writing, cooking and culinary teachings evolved into being as an entity surrounding food, fun, family and friends.

In an effort to capture her family’s ‘old world’ Italian recipes for future generations to enjoy, her grandmother, ‘Noni’, and Cynthia joined forces. "She measured, I wrote, and we cooked."

During her grandmother's latter 80 years, she traveled in memory through her life, as they shared in stories of a lifetime and long ago. As they shared this final chapter in her life, what Cynthia soon discovered through all of the measuring, cooking, sharing in the love of a family, and in the love of a friendship, was the passion for cooking, and a love that nourishes us all… It’s all about the FOOD!

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