This cake is egg free. Mom is allergic to egg yokes, and I don't like to see her when she gets allergic.
FUDGE CAKE
2 cups sugar 2 cups all purpose flour Mix in large bowl
1 cup shortening 1 stick butter 1
cup water 1/4 cup cocoa Put into sauce pan and melt. Then mix with sugar and flour.
1/2 cup buttermilk
(or sweet milk with 1 teaspoon vinegar added.) 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon vanilla Add to mixture in large bowl.
The
batter will be very thin.
Spray 9" by 13" by 2" pan with Pam. Bake in oven for 45 minutes at 350 degrees.
Icing
for Fudge Cake:
In sauce pan put 1 stick butter
1/4 cup cocoa 1/2 cup
milk 1 pound powdered
sugar Let melt on top of stove. Add 1 cup pecans and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Pour over top of cake while cake
is still hot.
This cake is better the next day after making it.
Grandma took one of her sister's recepies and made it so Mom can eat it. Actually, it can about as
a mistake copying the origional, but it works and Mom loves it.
-Kelley
This is my kitty. His name is Sean. He is my favorite brother.-- K
