Oklahoma Earth Cake

Oklahoma Earth Cake

From the Kitchen of Peggy Walton

½ cup margarine

1 ½ cups sugar

2 eggs

1.       Cream margarine and sugar, add eggs one at a time and mix

2 cups flour

1 tbsp cocoa

1 tsp salt

2.       Sift above dry ingredients and add to the creamed mixture, alternately with liquids below:

1 cup buttermilk

1 tsp baking soda

2 tbsp hot water with 1 heaping tsp coffee

1 tsp red food color

3.       Mix well and bake in greased and floured 13x9” pan for 34 minutes at 350.

Icing:

½ cup butter or margarine

1 cup chopped nuts

1.       Roast butter and nuts in 350 oven for 10 minutes, cool, then add:

1 box sifted powdered sugar

1/3 cup half & half (or milk)

½ tsp vanilla

2.       Add half & half slowly until icing is right consistency, spread over warm cake.