Recipe - Best Chocolate Cake

2 cup All purpose flour
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking powder
2 teaspoon Baking soda
Three fourths cup Unsweetened cocoa
2 cup Sugar
1 cup Vegetable oil
1 cup Hot coffee
1 cup Milk
2 Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

FAVORITE ICING
1 cup Milk
5 tablespoon Allpurpose flour
One half cup Butter, softened
One half cup Shortening
1 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

Sift together dry ingredients. Add oil, coffee and milk; mix at medium
speed for two minutes. Add eggs and vanilla; beat two more minutes. (Batter
will be thin.) Pour into two greased and floured 9in. cake pans. Bake at
325' for 2530 minutes. Cool cakes for 15 minutes before removing from
pans. Cool on racks.

Favorite Icing: Cook milk and flour in a saucepan until thick. Cover and
refrigerate. (I make this before I start the cake) In a mixing bowl, beat
butter, shortening, sugar and vanilla until creamy. Add chilled milk/ flour
mixture and beat for 10 minutes. (Really?!) Frost cooled cake and enjoy.

Posted to FOODWINE Digest 6 November 96

Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 17:59:48 0500

From: Wendy Meador nhmeadors@TOP.MONAD.NET