Granny's Messy Chocolate Cake
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Yields:
-
1 cake
ingredients
-
cake
- 1 cup shortening
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 eggs
- 1⁄2 cup milk
- 1⁄2 cup buttermilk
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
-
chocolate icing
- 3 cups sugar
- 2⁄3 cup cocoa
- 1 cup canned milk
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 1⁄4 cup margarine or 1/4 cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
directions
- Cream shortening and sugar.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating after each.
- Sift flour with baking powder and salt.
- Add alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour.
- Add vanilla.
- Pour into three 9 inch layer pans and bake in 350 degree oven until just barely done.
- Remove from pans.
- Slice each layer in half while still warm and pour chocolate icing between layers and on top.
- The icing will run down into the cake.
- CHOCOLATE ICING
- Mix sugar, cocoa, milk, water, and butter in large sauce pan, cook and stir until it forms a soft ball in cold water.
- Remove from heat and add vanilla.
- Beat about one minute, pour over cake while hot.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
SteLenBur1982
Leesburg, Georgia