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Texas Sheet Cake

Put in mixing bowl:

2 cups sugar
2 cups flour

Bring to boil in pan:

1 cup oleo
¼ cup Crisco
4 Tbsp cocoa
1 cup water
 
Mix boiling mixture with flour and sugar. Add ½ cups buttermilk, 1 tsp soda, 1 tsp vanilla and 1 tsp cinnamon. Add 2 beaten eggs. Bake 20 minutes at 400° in a greased and floured cookie sheet.
 
5 minutes before cake is done make this Icing:
 
1 cube oleo
4 Tbsp cocoa
1 box powdered sugar
6 Tbsp milk or cream
1 tsp vanilla
½ cup chopped nuts
 
Spread on cake while hot.
 
A staple at the Cothrun house.—Randy
 
This is the best chocolate cake this side of the Mississippi.—Nathan


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