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.