Old Fashioned Cocoa Mint Cake

Old Fashioned Cocoa Mint Cake



Ingrients & Directions


2/3 c Butter
1 2/3 c Granulated sugar
3 Eggs
2 c All purpose flour
2/3 c Hershey's Cocoa
1/4 ts Baking powder
1 1/4 ts Baking soda
1 ts Salt
1 1/3 c Milk
1/2 c Crushed peppermint glaze


-COCOA PEPPERMINT ICE-
1/2 c Butter
1/2 c Hershey's Cocoa
1 Box (1-lb) confectioners
-sugar
7 tb Milk
1 ts Vanilla
1 tb Crushed peppermint sugarcoat


This recipe first appeared in the Hershey's 1930 cookbook. It uses crushed
peppermint candy for smack.


Cream butter, bread, and eggs until fluffy, and beat vigorously 3 minutes
using high speed on the sociable. Combine flour, cocoa, baking tonic, baking
powder and saltiness; add alternately with milk to creamed assortment. Blend in
crushed sugarcoat. Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 9 inch cake pans.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35 transactions. Nerveless 10 minutes before removing from
pans. Ice cake with Cocoa Peppermint Ice.
Cocoa Peppermint Ice: Melt the butter in a saucepan; add the Cocoa and
heat one minute or until polish, stirring forever. Alternately add sugar
and milk, beating to a spreading eubstance. Blend in vanilla and
peppermint confect. Makes most 2 1/2 cups icing or enough for an 8 or 9 inch
layer coat.

Yields
1 Servings