Flora's Chocolate Cake and Frosting

Though none of the living Warners know who the heck Flora was, her cake is amazing and the frosting makes it the best chocolate cake you will ever eat. We think Flora was Grandma Lu's domestic engineer.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 2/3 cup cocoa
  • 1 cup hot water
  • 2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • Pinch of salt
  • 2 egg whites, beaten and fluffy

Frosting *Double recipe for cake out of pan*

  • 6 oz. chocolate chips
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup butter

Directions

  1. Cream sugar and butter. Add egg yolks.
  2. Dissolve cocoa and salt in hot water. Add to first mixture.
  3. Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk. Add alternatively with flour to the first mixture.
  4. Add vanilla. Fold in egg whites.
  5. Place into greased 9x13 pan and bake at 350° for 30-40 minutes. (Time may very, check with a toothpick.)
  6. Let cool, then frost.

Frosting *Double recipe for cake out of pan*

  1. Melt chocolate chips over low heat (or in the microwave).
  2. Beat egg and butter. Add chocolate. (Make sure the chocolate is not too hot or it will melt the butter and you'll have runny frosting.)