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Directions:Stir up 2 cups sugar with 2 cups flour. In a saucepan, heat ½ cup butter, ½ cup vegetable shortening, 3 tablespoons Hershey’s cocoa (in the brown box), and 1 cup Coca-Cola (don’t even talk to me about “diet”). Heat this until the fats are melted and pour it all into the sugar/flour mix. Add ½ cup buttermilk, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 2 beaten eggs, ¼ teaspoon salt, 1 running-over teaspoon vanilla, and a cup or two of mini-marshmallows. Pour all this into a greased 13x9x2-inch pan. The marshmallows will sorta float to the top – when they do, make sure they are evenly distributed over the top, not all wedged into one end of the pan and the other end just nekkid. You bake this at 350 degrees for around 45 minutes, depending on your oven. Keep an eye on it, and when you think it’s getting to be “time,” just reach in with your pot holder and jiggle the pan slightly; if the top appears to be “set,” it’s done. What happens is the marshmallows melt, so you can still see the outlines of ‘em on top of the cake at this point and you want ‘em set but not scorched. You’re gonna ice this cake while it’s hot, with hot icing, so the only thing easier is if somebody else just makes it for you entirely.
A few minutes before the cake gets done, melt together 1 stick butter (and you know how I hate unsalted butter), 6 tablespoons Coca-Cola, and ¼ teaspoon salt. Stir in 1 box powdered sugar and add 1 running-over teaspoon vanilla. Stir all this up and pour it, while it’s hot, over the hot cake, right outta the oven. Me and my bestest friend, AliceAnn, have been known to eat an entire pan of this, still scalding hot, by dumping scoops of vanilla ice cream on it in order to cool it off enough to put it into our mouths. This is actually the recommended method of serving. |
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