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Grandma Warnick’s Chocolate Cake
- Cake
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 tablespoons shortening
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk – (can use sour cream or 3 tablespoons vinegar in 1 cup whole milk)
- 2 ½ cups flour
- 6 tablespoons (heaping) cocoa
- 2 teaspoons soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Cream together shortening and sugar. Add eggs and beat. Add buttermilk. Sift together dry ingredients, add to mixture then add 1 cups boiling water, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Bake 45 mins in 350 f. oven.
- Chocolate Frosting
- In saucepan melt 1 square butter, pinch salt, 3 Tablespoons Cocoa, after melting add 1/3 cup milk, bring to boil, take off stove and add 1 teaspoon vanilla and enough powdered sugar to make spread able.
