astray recipes: Christmas eve chocolate cake

Categories: Cakes; Holiday's
Yield: 6 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
2 cups	Sugar
2 cups	Flour
½ cup	Shortening
½ cup	Butter Or Margarine
1 cup	Water
¼ cup	Cocoa
½ cup	Buttermilk
2	Eggs; Beaten
1 teaspoon	Baking Soda
1 teaspoon	Vanilla -Icing Ingredients---
½ cup	Butter Or Margarine
¼ cup	Cocoa
6 tablespoons	Milk
1	Box Powdered Sugar
1 teaspoon	Vanilla
1 cup	Chopped nuts

Cake: Sift flour and sugar together. Bring butter, shortening, water and cocoa to a boil in a sauce pan. Pour over flour mixture while still hot.

Add buttermilk, eggs, soda and vanilla. Spoon into a large baking sheet with sides. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 20 minutes. Ice cake while still hot.

Icing: Combine butter, cocoa and milk in a saucepan; bring to a boil.

Remove from heat. Add powdered sugar, vanilla and nuts. Mix well. This recipe from the "Flat Rock Cookbook".

Recipe by: Alice Bauers, Flat Rock, Michigan Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 650 by PLK1028@... on Jan 31, 1998

christmas eve chocolate cake