Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake (1980)

• 2-1/4 cup cake flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1/2 cup sauerkraut, chopped and drained
• 1-1/2 cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1-1/4 tspn vanilla
• 1 tspn baking powder
• 1 tspn baking soda
• 1/2 tspn salt
• 2/3 cup butter or shortening
• 1 cup water

Sift together the cake flour, baking powder, and baking soda.  Set aside. Cream butter, sugar, and eggs.  Mix well.

Add vanilla, salt, and cocoa to butter mixture.  Mix well.  Alternately blend the two mixtures and water. Gently fold in sauerkraut. 

Bake in greased, floured 13x9x2-inch pan at 375 degrees for 35 minutes.

(Origin - "Faith Outreach Church Cookbook" in Huntington, West Virginia, 1980.)

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