Grandma Brock's Chocolate Cake

My Grandma Brock was a great Grandma. Whenever we stayed with her she would not only let us do whatever we wanted to do, she would help us. I remember one time my sister Jayne wanted to make a chocolate cake at 9:00 PM. Grandma says okay so we do it! Of course we always ate a great deal of the batter before it was actually baked. Grandma's Chocolate cake was her standard recipe and I never saw it written. But we grandchildren helped her make it so frequently that we knew the recipe as well as grandma did. But time marches on and the fine details of the recipe became vague to me. And then one day I ran across this recipe and it was exactly like Grandma's recipe!!


Grandma's Chocolate Cake
1 1/2 C Sugar
2 eggs
1/2 C butter
1/2 C buttermilk
2 tsp baking soda
4 T. cocoa powder
1 C hot water
1 1/2 C flour
Cream together eggs, butter and sugar. Add dry ingredients,soda, flour and cocoa alternately with the buttermilk. After you have mixed this well, add the cup of hot water. Batter will be thin. Use two round cake pans and dividiing batter evenly between the two. Bake at350 degrees for 20 minutes.
(Grandma rarely had buttermilk on hand so we put a teaspoon of vinegar in regular milk)

Icing:
1 Box powdered sugar
1 C butter
1 C. flour
4 T. Cocoa powder
Mix sugar, flour and cocoa. Blend in the butter. Make some strong coffee and use the coffee to make the icing the right consistency.