This recipe is the closest I could find to the RV cake I had growing up in the 1960's.
I tasted a store bought RV a few years ago, and it was AWFUL!! I have wanted to make one since, the last time I baked one was 25 years ago.
Finally, I found my dad's 40 yr old recipe, which came with the famous story about the woman who paid for it and mailed it out in chain letters.
I decided to look online just to see what was out there and I was surprised that there are so many variations. Yesterday I made dad's recipe for nostalgia sake, so I could judge based on the cake I remember as scrumptious.
The difference in dad's cake ingredients includes only 2 cups of flour, 1 TB cocoa, 1TB vinegar.
Many online recipes show more dry ingredients and some less food coloring (2 1/4 C + flour, up to 1/4 C cocoa), but they don't increase the liquids ratio. This may be why some cakes are dry ???
Variations my dad may have added to the frosting was 1 C powdered sugar, rather than cane sugar, and he sprinkled the cake with coconut flakes which really makes it, if you like coconut. It also looks great.
I think I will need another slice to see if it tastes as good as it did 35 years ago. My husband liked it, and he doesn't eat many goodies. It tastes so fresh,it puts packaged cakes/frostings and store bought cakes to SHAME. I forgot what real ingredients actually taste like.
The only alteration I will consider next time is adding 1-2 T cocoa. Other than that, no changes on this ol
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