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Maw Maw's Cake with Chocolate Icing

Ingredients

  • CAKE
  • 1 box Duncan Hines Deluxe Yellow cake mix
  • 1 small box, instant vanilla pudding
  • 4 eggs
  • 3/4 cup Wesson oil
  • 10 ounces Sprite
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • CHOCOLATE ICING
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 2 tablespoons light Karo syrup
  • 1 stick butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa

Instructions

  1. Cake

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees

    Mix eggs and oil and beat slightly. Add cake mix, and pudding mix. Blend, then beat and add 5 oz. Sprite, beat, add 5 more oz. of Sprite. Stir in vanilla extract.

    Grease and flour, three round cake pans. Pour batter evenly into pans, bake at 350 for 25 - 30 minutes. Press fingers lightly in the middle of the cake, if it springs back, it is done. Frost with Chocolate Icing

  2. Chocolate Icing

    Mix sugar and cocoa well in a heavy saucepan. Add all other ingredients, EXCEPT vanilla. Stir well. Turn on heat to medium high, let the mixture come to a brisk rolling boil and boil for 3 minutes. Remove from heat. Cool to room temperature. Add vanilla, beat mixture with spoon until it is thick enough to spread. Work quickly!