Recipe - Black Chocolate Cake

FOR 12X8 CAKE
2 cup Flour
2 cup Sugar
1 cup Baking cocoa
1 pn Salt
8 tablespoon Salad oil (up to 10)
2 teaspoon Baking soda
2 cup Boiling water
1 Egg
1 teaspoon Vanilla (up to 2)

FOR 13X9 CAKE
3 cup Flour
3 cup Sugar
1 One half cup Baking cocoa
1 pn Salt
14 Tbsp.salad oil (up to 15)
3 teaspoon Baking soda
3 cup Boiling water
2 Eggs
2 One half teaspoon Vanilla

GROH'S FROSTING
3 tablespoon Flour
One half cup Milk
One half cup Shortening
One half cup Sugar
One half teaspoon Vanilla (up to 1)
1 pn Salt

Mix flour, sugar and cocoa in a large bowl. Add a pinch of salt and stir
again. Add oil and stir well. Put baking soda in another bowl.Add boiling
water, stir and quickly add to ingredients in large bowl; stir well. Drop
in egg/s and stir again. Add vanilla and stir. Bake in greased & floured
pan at 350 for about 1 hour.

Groh's Frosting: Put flour in saucepan. Gradually add milk to flour. Heat
over low flame, stirring constantly, until mixture forms a paste. Cool
well. Beat shortening and sugar with electric mixer until well blended. Add
cooled flour/milk paste. Beat with mixer until light and fluffy, about 5
minutes. Aadd pinch of salt and vanilla.

* I usually make 1 One half recipe for the 13x9 size cake
Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by "GoPlayer conklin"
conklin@goplay.com on Sep 21, 1997