BEST EVER CHOCOLATE CAKE

Another Neville recipe. Cade absolutely loves this cake. It really is delicious. The Neville family really does know how to do chocolate things right.

Ingredients:

1 cup shortening or butter

2 cups sugar

½ cup cocoa

1 cup sour milk (to sour milk add 1 tablespoon vinegar to fresh milk and let sit)

2 eggs

2 ½ cups flour

2 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

1 cup hot tap water

1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

1.   Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  

2.   Cream shortening and sugar.  

3.   Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.  

4.   Add cocoa and beat well.  

5.   Sift flour, soda, and salt together.  

6.   Add flour mixture alternately with sour milk.  (Buttermilk may used in place of sour milk.)  

7.   When well blended, add hot water and vanilla.  

*    Don’t mix excessively, just enough to blend and pour into a greased and floured 9x13 inch baking       pan or 2 8- inch rounds.  

8.   Bake 35-40 minutes or until tooth pick inserted in middle comes out clean.