Chocolate Cake - Epley Recipe

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Ingredients

  • Cake:
  • 3 Tbls cocoa
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 sticks butter
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 C water
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 C flour
  • 1/2 C buttermilk
  • 2 C granulated sugar
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • Icing:
  • 3 Tbls cocoa
  • 2 2/3 C powdered sugar (1 box)
  • 5 Tbls milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 stick butter
  • chopped nuts - optional

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Cake:
Bring to boil: cocoa, butter & water in small saucepan. Pour over flour & sugar mixture, mix well.
Add eggs and salt and beat well
Add vanilla, buttermilk & baking soda and blend
Bake in 9x13 pan or 2 round cake pans,
Cook for 30 minutes; let cake cool before icing
Icing:
Bring to boil - cocoa, milk & butter
pour over powdered sugar & vanilla
Mix well and spread on cake