Recipe - Texas Chocolate Cake

2 cup Plain flour
2 cup Sugar
One half teaspoon Salt
One half pound Butter
One fourth cup Cocoa
1 cup Water
One half pt Sour cream
1 teaspoon Baking soda
2 Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla
Icing:
One fourth pound Butter
1/3 cup Milk
One fourth cup Cocoa
16 ounce Powdered sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 cup Nuts

Sift flour, sugar and salt into bowl. In sauce pan: 2 sticks butter, 1/4
cup cocoa, 1 cup water. Bring to boil. Pour over ingredients in bowl. Add
sour cream. add baking soda, eggs and 1 tsp vanilla. Mix well and pour
into 18X12X1 pan. Bake 2530 minutes at 350. Spread with icing while cake
is still warm.

Icing: 1 butter, 1/3 cup milk, One fourth cup cocoa. Bring to hard boil for 12
minutes. Pour over box confectioners sugar. Add 1 tsp vanilla and 1 cup
nuts.
Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 574 by "Linda Hendren"
LindaH@nconline.com on Jan 21, 1998