Chocolate Picnic Cake
“This was Grandma Marie’s favorite birthday cake.
It travels well and can be cut up into small pieces like brownies.”
Ingredients
Batter
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
1 cup water
2 sticks butter
4 Tbsp cocoa
½ cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
Frosting
6 Tbsp milk
4 Tbsp cocoa
1 stick butter
1 box powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup walnuts, chopped (optional)
Directions
Combine sugar and flour in a bowl and set aside.
Combine water, butter and cocoa in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Pour this over the flour mixture and blend with a mixer.
Add buttermilk, eggs, baking soda and vanilla to mixture. Mix well and pour into a greased jelly roll pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes and frost.
For frosting, combine milk, cocoa and butter in saucepan and bring to a boil.
Add powdered sugar, vanilla and walnuts, if used to hot frosting mixture.
