Best Chocolate Cake With Caramel Icing

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From mrs aage peterson very old recipe from darlene kossman she says its very good i made the cake ,it was the icing looks complicated and i wrote recipe the way it was written im still working on it

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Steps

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Mix 1 / 2 cup sugar cocoa and shortening and water.

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Put in microwave melt shorteniing.

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Cool and add the rest of the sugar.

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Sift dry ingredients.

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Add alternately with buttermilk that has vanilla and eggs beaten inches.

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Bake in moderate oven 350 for 40 minutes or until done.

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For icing.

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Cook the sugars flour salt and boiling water 5 minutes pour cream in and cook until soft ball stage.

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Remove and add butter and vanilla let cool and beat until ready to pour on cakle.

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Ingredients

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sugar, cocoa, boiling water, shortening, buttermilk, baking soda, flour, salt, eggs, brown sugar, white sugar, cream, vanilla, butter