Recipe By:  BARB

Serving Size: 12   Preparation Time 30 MIN.

• Ingredients :
• 2         cups         flour
• 1/2     cup          cocoa
• 1          teasp.      salt
• 1/2     cup           unsalted butter
• 1 1/2  cups        sugar
• 2         teasp.      baking soda
• 1/2     cup           milk
• 1         cup           boiling water
• FROSTING
• 6      tblsp    cocoa
• 3      cups     confectioner’s sugar
• 1      teasp    vanilla
• 6      tblsp     hot coffee

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix together flour, cocoa, and salt; set aside.

Cream butter and sugar together in a large mixer bowl until lightly colored.  Add baking soda to milk; add alternately with dry ingredients to creamed mixture. Add boiling water, blending well.  Pour into 2 well buttered and floured 9-inch layer pans ( or 9x 13 inch pan). Bake 30 Min. Cool on a rack 10 minutes before removing from pans. Cool thoroughly on rack before frosting.

To prepare frosting:  Blend cocoa, sugar and butter together well. Slowly add hot coffee, stirring until a smooth spreading consistency.  Add vanilla.  Fill between layers, cover top and sides of cake.