John Whoozier Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup water
• 2 sticks butter or margarine
• 4 tablespoons baking cocoa
• 2 cups flour
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2/3 cup buttermilk
• Icing
• 1 stick butter or margarine
• 4 tablespoons baking cocoa
• 6 tablespoons buttermilk
• 1 pound powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup chopped nuts

Instructions

1. Cake
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2. In a saucepan combine water, butter and cocoa bring to a boil and take off heat. Sift together in a mixing bowl, flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Add cocoa mixture to flour mixture and mix well. Add eggs, vanilla and buttermilk. Spray a large cookie sheet or jelly roll pan, pour cake into prepared pan and bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes. Immediately when your remove from oven frost cake.
3. While cake is baking make icing:
4. Melt butter, cocoa and buttermilk in sauce pan. Bring to boil, remove from heat and add powdered sugar, a little at a time. Add vanilla and mix well. You can add nuts to frosting or at our house some people can’t eat nuts. So I put nuts on top of just half the cake

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