Chocolate Cinnamon Sheet Cake
- Three-fourths cup shortening or oil
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- one-half cup buttermilk
- one-fourth cup cocoa mixed with one cup hot water
- 2 and one-half cups flour
- 1 tsp. soda
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Cream the oil and sugar. Add eggs. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with buttermilk and cocoa mixture. Add vanilla. Mix well. Bake in 11" x 15" cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
Frosting:
- one-half cup softened butter
- one-fourth cup milk
- one-fourth cup cocoa
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- one-half tsp. of vanilla.
Mix well with electric mixer and spread on cooled cake.
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