Cake from scratch

Tolgonay's recipe

(rough translation and reformatting of recipe sent by Tolgonay)

(see below for a different version)

Ingredients

• 200g butter
• 1½ cups sugar
• 1-2 cups cocoa powder
• 1 cup milk
• 4 eggs
• <1 tsp baking soda
• vanilla to taste
• flour to thicken
• nuts or raisins as topping
• powdered sugar as topping

Instructions

1. Mix butter, sugar, and cocoa
2. Add milk and mix until it starts to boil
3. Leave until it gets just a little warm
4. Mix in eggs, baking soda, vanilla
5. Add flour to thicken
6. Pour into pan
7. Bake in oven at about 100-120°C (≈215-275°F).
8. After 5-10 mins add crushed nuts or raisins on the top
9. Let bake until knife comes out dry
10. Sprinkle powdered sugar on top

How I actually did it

Ingredients

• 1 4oz stick butter
• ~¾cup vegetable oil
• 1½ cups sugar
• ~1 cup Nesquick® (didn't have cocoa powder, oops)
• 1 cups milk
• 4 eggs
• ~1 tbsp baking powder (didn't have baking soda, oops)
• ~1 tbsp vanilla
• ~3-4 cups flour to thicken
• Chocolate and butterscotch chips as topping

Instructions

1. Mix butter, oil, sugar, and cocoa in pot on low-medium heat until completely liquid
2. Add milk and mix until it starts to boil (get as much sugar dissolved as possible)
3. Stick in fridge for a while until cool (a little warm is fine)
4. Mix in eggs
5. Mix in baking soda(/powder), then vanilla
6. Add flour to thicken (no more than 1 cup at a time)
7. Pour into pan
8. Bake in oven at about ~300F. (I started at 275 and kept turning it up by 25° or so, gradually. I may have gotten to 350° in the end, but I forget)
9. After ≥10 mins add chocolate chips and butterscotch chips to top
10. Let bake about an hour+ until knife comes out dry
11. Add frosting?

Original Russian as sent by Tolgonay

"200 г маргарин (или слив. масло) + 1,5 стакан (или 1 ст.) сахара) + 1-2 стакана какао= перемешать, + 1 ст.молоко=мешать все это до кипения. Взять с газа и поставить, чтобы масса стала чуть-чуть теплой. Потом в эту массу добавишь 4 яйца+1 неполная чайная ложка соды, ванилин по вкусу+ мука немного=пусть получится жидкая масса. Эту массу положишь в форму кекса или в сковородку и положить в духовку (100-120 градусов). Потом через 5-10 минут положишь изюм или орехи в эту массу. Кекс готов или нет, можно узнать, положив в кекс нож. Если нож сухой, то кекс значит готов. Сверху кекса положить сахарную пудру."