Sylvia's Chocolate Cake

By KimberlyB

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup butter
• 1/4 c cocoa
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 c buttermilk
• 2 eggs, slightly beaten
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp vanilla

Details

Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 35mins

Preparation

Step 1

Combine flour and sugar into a large bowl. Combine butter, cocoa and water in saucepan. Cook to a boil. Pour over sugar and flour and mix thoroughtly. Add buttermilk, eggs, soda and vanilla and mix well. Pour into a greased jelly roll pan 15 x 10 x 1. Bake at 400' for 20 minutes.

Last 5 minutes before cake is done start frosting.

Icing - 1/2 c butter, 6 Tablespoons Milk. in saucepan until boils. Add 1/4 cup cocoa, 1 tsp vanilla and enough confectionsugar to make a pourable thick icing. Pour over warm out of the oven cake and let cool completely before cutting.