Chocolate Coffee Cake w/ cooked frosting

By Gigirox

Leah introduced us to this cake in Hatteras...we'll keep it around.

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup oil
• 1 cup brewed coffee
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 3/4 cup cocoa
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 7 T + 1 1/2 tsp flour
• 1 1/2 cup butter
• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla

Preparation

Step 1

Cake
-Preheat oven 350*
-Grease and flour 9x13 cake pan.
-Blend wet ingredients well.
-Stir together dry ingredients in separate bowl.
-Add dry ingredients to wet and mix thoroughly.
-Bake 30-35 minutes
Frosting
-Cook milk and flour until thickened. Cool completely.
-Cream butter and sugar, add vanilla.
-Beat flour mixture into butter.
*recipe is in "frostings" cookbook