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Cowboy Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 c sugar
2 c flour
1/2 c cocoa
1 c butter
1 c water
1/2 c buttermilk
1 tsp soda
1 tsp vanilla

For the icing:
6 Tbsp milk
1/4 c cocoa
1/2 c butter
1 lb powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Directions:
Directions:
Mix sugar and flour; set aside. Bring cocoa, butter, and water to a boil and add to sugar/flour mixture. Then add buttermilk, soda, and vanilla and stir. Mix and pour into greased 16x20 pan. Bake in 400º oven 20-25 minutes. Prepare icing 5 minutes before cake is done. Bring milk, cocoa, and butter to a boil. Then add powdered sugar and vanilla. Pour icing onto cake when cake is taken out of oven.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This is one of the specialties my mom, Judy Miller Evans, would make when I was a kid. Yummmm!

 

 

 

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