12-Layer Chocolate Cake

Lisa over at http://stopnsmellthechocolates.blogspot.com/2009/08/would-you-like-chocolate-with-that_28.html

is having Chocolate Friday.

So here's my recipe for chocolate.

12-layer chocolate cake

4 cups sugar

4 sticks butter

6 tbsp Crisco

5 cups self-rising flour

8 eggs

2 1/2 cups buttermilk

2 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven to 350. Combine sugar, butter, Crisco, eggs, and buttermilk, and vanilla. Cream together until smooth. Blend in flour a little at a time: mix for about two minutes. Bake very thin layers until done. I use a measuring cup and put one cup of batter in each pan. I spray my pans and put wax paper in them. The wax paper helps me to pull each layer out and put more batter into them before waiting for them to cool. Unless your fortunate enough to have 12 cake pans.

Chocolate Icing

4 cups sugar

2 sticks butter

6 tbsp. cocoa

1 cup milk

Melt butter, sugar and cocoa in saucepan. Add milk, bring to a boil. Boil for one minute. Remove from heat. Ice cake when icing begins to thicken. If it becomes to think rewarm. You want it to drizzle, syrupy, not real thick.