$100.00 Chocolate Cake

Here's a recipe from my mother-in-law, Mary Marinaro Sloan.  She made this recipe MANY times for the Elkhorn City United Methodist Church events and her family.  It's still one of our favorites here on the farm.  *It pairs perfectly with our Blackberry Wine:)

Cake Ingredients:

2 C. flour

2 C. Sugar

1 C. Water

1/2 C. oil

1 stick of butter

4 TBSP Cocoa

1/2 C. Buttermilk

2 eggs

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

ICING: 

1 stick butter

4 TBSP milk

4 TBSP cocoa

1 TBSP Vanilla

1 box confectioner's sugar

Stir flour and sugar in mixing bowl.  Mix water, oil, butter, and cocoa in a saucepan.  Boil 3 minutes, stirring constantly.  Pour over flour mixture.  Mix buttermilk, eggs, baking soda, and salt together, then pour into mixture.  Mix well and pour into floured 9 X 13 pan.  Make in 350 degree oven for 40 minutes.

ICING:  Mix butter, milk, cocoa, and vanilla in saucepan and bring to a boil.  Add conf. sugar until it's a spreading consistency.