Mahogany Cake
Ingredients:
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 cup vegetable shortening (1 stick)
- 1 dash salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 eggs
- 2 ½ cups flour
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon baking powder (pre-mixed into the buttermilk
Directions:
Grease & flour a 9×13 pan.
Mix the sugar and cocoa first – the sugar cuts the dry cocoa up and helps it mix better.
Mix everything else in.
Pre-mix the baking powder into the buttermilk.
Bake at 350 for 30 to 40 minutes. Test the center before taking out.
Frosting:
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 stick margarine or butter
- 4 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 dash salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 box (16 oz) powdered sugar
Cake must be cool before frosting.
Mix the frosting ingredients and frost the cake.