2 c Flour

1 ts Salt

1 ts Baking powder

2 ts Baking soda

3/4 c Unsweetened cocoa

2 c Sugar

1 c Oil

1 c Hot coffee

1 c Milk

2 Eggs

1 ts Vanilla extract

Favorite Icing: 1 c Milk

5 tb Flour

1/2 c Butter, softened

1/2 c Shortening

1 c Sugar

1 ts Vanilla extract

For cake, sift together dry -ingredients in a mixing -bowl. Add oil, coffee and milk; -mix at medium speed for 2 Minutes. Add eggs and -vanilla; beat 2 more -minutes (batter Will be thin). Pour into 2 -greased and floured 9" cake Pans. Bake at 325 degrees -for 25-30 minutes. Cool -cakes 15 Minutes before removing from

-pans. Cool on wire racks. Meanwhile, for icing, -combine the milk and flour -in a Saucepan; cook until thick. -Cover and refrigerate. In -a Mixing bowl, beat butter, -shortening, sugar and -vanilla Until creamy. Add chilled -milk/flour mixture and beat -for 10 Minutes. Frost cooled cake.

Cake: From: "Taste of Home" Magazine Posted by: Debbie Carlson - Cooking Echo