Mary's Chocolate Cake with Whipped Icing
The best!
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2/3 cup cocoa
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup black coffee
Icing
- 4 Tbsp flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1 stick butter
- 1/2 cup solid shortning
- 1 T vanilla
- 1 cup sugar
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 9x13 baking pan
- Mix dry ingredients together
- Add wet ingredients one at a time, beating well after each addition. Batter will be thin and bubbly.
- Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 30-40 minutes until done.
Icing
- While cake is cooking, Boil flour and milk together until really thick. Then put in refrigerator to get cold
- Beat butter and shortening and sugar until fluffy.
- Add in flour mixture a little at a time and beat until fluffy - 8 to 10 minutes. Add vanilla and beat. Ice cake