#542 - Radio Chocolate Cake

(by Orah [Kling] Seiple and Oleta B. Reed)

2 eggs
1 cup Crisco shortening
1 cup sour milk (in a measuring cup add 1/2 tsp. vinegar, then fill the rest with milk to the 1 cup line)
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 cups white sugar
1 cup Hershey's cocoa
2 1/2 cups sifted flour
2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup boiling water
Frosting: 1lb. Domino's powdered sugar, 1/2 cup softened butter OR Parkay margarine, 3-4 TBSP milk, 1 tsp. vanilla.

In a mixer add eggs, Crisco, sour milk, baking soda, salt, white sugar, vanilla, and boiling water--beat. Add sifted flour a little at a time--beat. Add cocoa--beat well. Pour batter into a greased and floured 9 x 13 cake pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean (top of cake usually cracks across the top). Cool the cake. Frosting: in a mixer add powdered sugar, butter OR Parkay, 3 TBSP milk, and vanilla--beat until smooth and creamy. Add 1 TBSP milk and beat again if frosting is too stiff.