Monday, March 2, 2009

Dad's Favorite Chocolate Cake

This is my Dad's favorite chocolate cake. For his birthday every year this is the cake he gets. Dad's Mom would always make this cake for him too when he was growing up.

Mix:
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups flour
3 tblsp. cocoa
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. soda

Add: 1 cup cream
1 tsp. vanilla
1 or 2 eggs
1/4 cup buttermilk

Mix well. Put in greased and floured 8x8 pan. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.

Icing:
1/4 cup crisco or butter
1/4 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
3 1/2 cups confectioners sugar (sift if lumpy)
1/2 cup cocoa
1/3 cup milk

Combine melted crisco or butter and salt, then add milk and vanilla. Mix in sugar in 3 parts. Mix until smooth and creamy. Add more sugar to thicken or milk to thin, as needed for good spreading consistency.

1 comment:

  1. Yum cake!

    Thank you.

    I'm so glad you enjoyed visiting with me. It's very nice to meet you. It is being really fun and interesting meeting so many people through this blog party. This is my first one.

    Do have a lovely day.

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