Chocolate Cake Recipe

Some of you have asked for this recipe, so here it is. It is the cake my Mamma made for Amanda's birthday and it is SO good. I'm calling it Mamma's, but in her recipe book it's called Dianna's Chocolate Sheet Cake. My Mamma has been making it long enough that I think she can claim it now. Plus, she made it with dark chocolate this time, so she changed it a bit. In her favorite cooking notebook, this recipe is hand written and covered with splashes of batter and twenty years of cooking.

Olethia's Buttermilk Chocolate Cake

Sift together 2 cups sugar and two cups self-rising flour and set aside.

Then bring to boil 1 stick butter, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 5 Tbsp. dark cocoa, 1 cup water.

Pour over sugar and flour mixture.

Beat 2 eggs, 1/2 tsp. baking soda, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1/2 cup buttermilk.

Pour this into other mixture.

Bake at 400 for 20 minutes.

Icing:

Boil 1 stick butter, 6 Tbsp. buttermilk, 5 Tbsp. dark cocoa

Add 1 box confectioner's sugar, 1 tsp. vanilla, and 1 cup chopped pecans.

Pour over cake right out of oven, and careful not to swallow your tongue.