Hershey's Wonder Cake

From the kitchen of Tona Thornburg Court, Bridgeton MO.

• Ready In: 2 hrs 15 mins
• Serves: 12
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 2  cups granulated sugar
• 1  cup butter
• 4  eggs
• 2 (5 1/2ounce) cans  chocolate syrup
• 7 (1 5/8ounce)  Hershey Bars, melted
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 2 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1  cup buttermilk
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1⁄2 cup confectioners' sugar

Directions

1. Cream sugar and butter; add eggs 1 at a time, beating well.
2. Add syrup and melted candy bars.
3. Add salt to flour; stir baking soda into buttermilk and add to other ingredients alternately with flour, beginning and ending with flour.
4. Add vanilla extract and pour into greased tube pan.
5. Bake at 300 degrees F for 1 1/2 hours.
6. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing.
7. Sift confectioners' sugar over cooled cake.