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Chocolate Cake Recipe

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This recipe for Chocolate Cake, by , is from Massengale Family Cookbook, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. We help families or individuals create heirloom cookbook treasures.
Contributor:  
Contributor:  
Carolyn Weeren
Added: Friday, February 2, 2007
Category:
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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cups Flour
2 cup Sugar
1 cup Water
4 T Cocoa
1 stick Oleo
1/2 cup shortening
2 Eggs-beaten
1/2 cup Buttermilk
1 t Vanilla
1 t Cinnamon
1 t Soda
Directions:
Directions:
Mix flour and sugar in large mixing bowl. Bring to boil water, cocoa, olea and shortening. Pour immediately over flour and sugar and add rest of ingredients. Cook in shallow pan@350º for 25-30 min. Make icing 5 min. before cake is done.

Icing:
1 stick Oleo
4 T Cocoa
6 T Milk
1 cup Nuts
box Powder Sugar
1 t Vanilla

Bring to boil, oleo, cocoa & milk and remove from fire and immediately add rest of ingredients. Pour on cake as soon as it comes from oven.

 

 

 

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