Hershey's "Perfectly Chocolate" Chocolate Cake

Yep, that's right, Perfectly Chocolate.  This recipe is one of my favs and I have used it for years.  It comes from my Hershey's Classic Recipe cookbook and I just thought I would share!

 Is your mouth watering yet?

CAKE

2 cups of sugar

1 3/4 cups of all purpose flour

3/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa Powder

1 1/2 tsp. baking powder

1 1/2 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

2 eggs

1 cup milk

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 tsp. vanilla extract

1 cup boiling water

1.  Heat oven to 350 degress.  Grease and flour 13x9x2 inch baking pan.

2.  Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, bakng powder, baking soda and salt in a large mixer bowel.  Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla.  Beat on medium speed of electric mixer for 2 minutes.  Stir in the waer (batter will be thing). 

3.  Pour  batter into prepared pan.

4.  Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted into the center comes out completely clean. 

5.  Prepare frosting.

FROSTING

1 stick (1/2 cup) butter or margarine

2/3 cup Hershey's cocoa powder

3 cups powdered sugar

1/3 cup milk

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1.  Melt butter.  Stir in cocoa.  Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to a spreading consistency.

2.  Add a small amount of additional milk if needed.  Stir in vanilla.

(In the picture above I also added p-nut butter and chocolate chips because I had a few left over from another recipe I made recently and just wanted to use them up).