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SPQ: "CHOCOLATE STUFF"

from "The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love" Can be doubled; pour into 3 loaf pans.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    1 loaf-pan worth

Ingredients

2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 stick butter, melted
2 heaping tablespoons Hershey's Cocoa
1 running-over teaspoon real vanilla
whole bunch of chopped pecans (opt.)

Preparation

  1. Beat eggs with sugar; add flour, then salt. Stir cocoa into melted butter. Dump into other bowl of stuff and mix well. Add vanilla and nuts if desired. Stir well.

    Pour into greased loaf pan; set in a pan of water. Put in 300º oven. Bake for 40-50 minutes. Tap at 40 minutes to see if top has hardened "crunchy."

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