Heavenly chocolate cake #1
16 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup | Butter or margarine |
| 2½ | cup | Sugar |
| 2 | Eggs | |
| 3 | cups | Flour |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 3 | tablespoons | Cocoa |
| 2 | tablespoons | Vanilla |
| 2 | cups | Buttermilk |
| 2 | teaspoons | Soda (dissolved in milk) |
| 1 | Box powdered sugar | |
| ½ | cup | Cocoa |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| ¾ | Stick butter; softened | |
| 7 | tablespoons | Boiling water |
Directions
ICING
Cream sugar & butter. Add eggs, one at a time & beat well. Add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk & soda. Add vanilla. Bake in 3 layer pans at 350 until done (this is a large cake!). For icing, mix sugar & cocoa. Add vanilla, water & salt. Stir until smooth. Add butter. Beat 3 minutes & pour over cake. (To make Fresh Coconut Cake, leave out cocoa & substitute 1 teaspoon baking powder for 1 of the teaspoons soda. Add 1 cup fresh coconut to icing.)
KAPPI PILLOW
From <Simply Southern>, the Desoto School Mothers' Assn, Helena-West Helena, AR 72390. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .