QUICK CHOCOLATE CAKE

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1¾ cups SR flour
• 2 tbispns cocoa
• ½ tspn bicarbonate of soda
• pinch salt 4oz butter or margarine,
• melted ½ tspn vanilla
• 1 cup milk
• 2 eggs

CHOCOLATE ICING:

½ cup icing sugar

2 tspns cocoa

½ tspn butter

2 tspns hot milk

Grease an cake tin. I used a bear mold .

Set oven temperature at moderate (350 deg F).

Instuctions

1. Sift all dry ingredients into a mixing bowl.
2. Add melted shortening, milk and vanilla. Beat all together for two minutes
3. Add eggs and beat another two minutes
4. Place in prepared tin in moderate oven for one hour until a fine skewer inserted comes out clean .
5. Cool on a wire rack when cold ice top with chocolate icing.

Chocolate icing :

1. Sift together icing sugar, cocoa.
2. Melt butter in hot milk and pour into sifted sugar, stirring until icing is smooth and shiny.
3. Spread icing on the cake quickly while still warm.