Recipe - Devil Food Cake

1 cup Margarine
2 One half cup Sugar
5 Egg yolks; well beaten
1 cup Buttermilk
1 teaspoon Soda
2 cup Sifted flour
4 tablespoon Cocoa; sifted
1 teaspoon Vanilla

FROSTING
2 One half cup Sugar
1 cn (small) evaporated milk
4 tablespoon Light corn syrup
1 Lump of butter
1 cn (small) crushed pineapple;
drained
Pecan halves

Cream margarine and sugar; add other ingredients, mix well. Beat egg
whites until stiff. Fold into mixture. Bake in 2 well greased cake pans at
350 degrees approximately 30 minutes. Cool.

To make frosting: Boil together 2One half cups sugar, evaporated milk, syrup
and butter. Brown lightly in a heavy skillet, Three fourths cup sugar; add to the
boiling mixture. Cook to a soft ball stage; cool and beat.

Place crushed pineapple between layers. Ice cake with frosting. Decorate
top with pecan halves.

From A Taste of Louisiana. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.