Recipe - Chocolate Candy Cake

1 cup Water
1 cup Butter or margarine
One fourth cup Cocoa
2 cup Allpurpose flour
2 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Baking soda
One fourth teaspoon Salt
One half cup Buttermilk
2 lg Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
Chocolate Candy Frosting

Bring first 3 ingredients to a boil in a large heavy saucepan, stirring
constantly. Gradually stir in allpurpose flour and next 3 ingredients.
Stir in buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla extract. Pour into a greased and
floured 13 x 9inch pan. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a wooden
pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack. Prick
surface at 1inch intervals with a wooden pick, and pour Chocolate Candy
Frosting on top. Makes 15 servings.

CHOCOLATE CANDY FROSTING:
One half cup butter or margarine
1/3 cup milk
One fourth cup cocoa 16 ounce package powdered sugar, sifted 1 teaspoon
vanilla extract

Bring first 3 ingredients to a boil in a heavy saucepan over low heat,
stirring constantly. Stir in sugar. Remove from heat; add vanilla, stirring
constantly, 3 to 5 minutes or until frosting begins to lose its gloss.
Makes about 3 cups, enough for one sheet cake. http://www.pathfinder.com/ ©
Copyright 1997 Southern Living. All rights reserved. MC formatting by
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NOTES : Recipe originally submitted to October, 1981 magazine by Mrs.
Walter Reese, Birmingham, AL
Recipe by: Southern Living

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by Roberta Banghart bobbi744@acd.net on May
13, 1998