Mom’s Chocolate Cake

• servings: 1 cake
• total time: 40min

Ingredients

For the cake

1 2/3 cups flour

1.5 cups sugar

2.3 cup cocoa

1.5 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1.5 cups buttermilk

½ cup shortening

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

For the frosting

¼ cup cocoa

¼ cup milk

¼ cup Crisco

¾ cup sugar

1 cup powder sugar

Directions

DIRECTIONS

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Grease and flour 13x9 pan.

3. Beat all ingredients in a large mixers bowl on low speed, scraping bowl constantly, for about 3 seconds. Beat on high speed, scraping bowl occasionally, for three minutes.

4. Pour into pan.

5. Bake 35-40 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.

6. Combine the first four frosting ingredients in a small pot and boil for one minute. Remove from heat and stir in powdered sugar, then pour over cake and let cool.