*  Exported from  MasterCook  *

                           Hundred-Dollar Cake

Recipe By     : Urban Legend
Serving Size  : 12   Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Cakes

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   2      c             Flour
   1      c             Sugar
   1 1/2  ts            Baking powder
   1 1/2  ts            Baking soda
   4      tb            Cocoa
   1      c             Water
   1      c             Miracle Whip®
   2      ts            Vanilla
                        Frosting:
   1      c             Sugar
     1/4  c             Cocoa
     1/4  c             Milk
     1/4  c             Butter

Sift or stir dry ingredients together. Mix liquids well. Add to dry
ingredients and mix. Bake 35 minutes at 350°F.

Boil frosting ingredients together 1 minute. Stir until partly cool.
Add 2 ts vanilla.

Variations:

Increase soda to 2 ts, omit baking powder, add pinch salt, add 2 tb
seedless blackberry jam; heaping.
(Mrs. W. E. Amos, Charleston Receipts)

Use commercial mayonnaise instead of Miracle Whip®; use 1-1/4 ts
baking powder; bake in two 9" layer pans.
(Mrs. Kirk Lynch, Charleston Receipts)

Use 1 ts baking powder and 1/2 ts baking soda; 1 ts vanilla. Use a
9x9" pan. For frosting, use 1 oz square unsweetened chocolate melted
with 1 tb shortening; stir in 1 cup sifted powdered sugar, 1/2 ts
vanilla, and boiling water to make of a spreading consistency.
(Better Homes and Gardens Heritage Cook Book)


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