| | Directions | | CAKE: Cream sugar and Crisco. Add salt and baking powder. Add vanilla and mix. Add cocoa. While mixing, add 2 eggs, 1 cup flour, and part of milk. Mix and add 2 more eggs and another cup of flour and part of milk. Then mix and add the last egg and 1 cup of flour and the rest of the milk. Beat thoroughly. Bake in a tube pan at 325° for 1 1/2 hours. ICING: Cream butter. Add all the other ingredients and beat thoroughly. Add a little milk, if necessary. Spread on cake. Sprinkle chopped pecans over top of cake if desired. |
|
|
| Ingredients | | - |  | Cake |
| - | | 1 1/2 cups Crisco shortening |
| - | | 3 cups sugar |
| - | | 5 eggs |
| - | | 2 tablespoons vanilla |
| - | | 3 cups cake flour |
| - | | 5 tablespoons cocoa |
| - | | 1/2 teaspoon Salt |
| - | | 1 teaspoon baking powder |
| - | | 1 cup milk |
| - | | ICING |
| - | | 1 cup cocoa |
| - | | 1 box powdered sugar |
| - | | 1 stick margarine |
| - | | 1 teaspoon vanilla |
| - | | dash of salt |
| |
| |
