The Month Of Love Chocolate Make "Johnny Hoosier Cake" Yummmmmm!

Well, hello to all you foodies out there in Web Land, I hope this month you have found the love of your life or at least keeping the love of your life.  Me I still have the same old one I had over alot of years now and I mean a whole lot of them.  I've had him so long that he doesn't try to remember Valentine's Day which is to bad for him because nothing is worse then having a wife that is just alittle unhappy with a charge card in her hand.  I will buy what Iwant.  He just has never been very romantic and that's the way it goes.  Anywho today wasn't the best day for my family because our daughter ended her love and has started with a new life.  Sad but sometimes its best to just move on and pick up the pieces of your broken life and make the best of what she has and maybe she has learned a thing or two along the way.  Anywho besides this being the month of Love it is also the month for Chocolate which is not only good to eat but it is also good for your heart.  At least that is what am told.  Chocolate is one of my favorite things to eat and cook with.  Today I ahve a cake that I have been making since we lived in Morris, Ill.  Along time ago and its one of our son's favorite cakes as well.  Its easy to make and serves alot of poeple.  So any who I hope that you give this recipe a try.

Johnny Hoosier Cake

Cake:

2 Cups all purpose Flour
2 Cups Sugar
1 tsp. Salt
1 Cup Water
1/2 Cup Oil
1 stick Butter
3 TBSP. Cocoa
2 Eggs, beaten
1/2 cup Buttermilk
1 tsp. Soda
2 tsp. Vanilla

Mix flour, sugar, salt, soda, and cocoa together till blended.   Heat the butter, water and oil on the stove until it is all blended and add your vanilla last to the mix.  Then pour the hot mixture into the cake mix.  Then to that add the buttermilk and beaten eggs.  Pour into a greased oblong cake pan.  Then bake in a pre heated oven for about 30-35 minutes.  Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees.

Icing:
1 stick butter
6 TBSP. Buttermilk
3 TBSP. Cocoa
1 Tsp. Vanilla
3 Cups Powdered Sugar

Heat butter with buttermilk till the butter is melted.  Then to that you add the vanilla, cocoa, and mix, then add the sugar and mix till well blended.  Then pour on top of the cake when it comes out of the oven.  You may add some chopped nuts if you wish.

I hope that you enjoy this recipe as my family has for years.  Am sorry its taken me so long to blog but i have been busy with my daughter and grands moving back in with us and also am working on a E-Cookbook and we are working on a few more volumes to sell.  Am really looking forward to having you all try them.  Come visit my fan page on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/#!/CookingwithMadjon and visit our TV show at http://www.aikenstandard.com/ ASRV 95, "Cooking With Madjon and Friends."  E-mail me at madjon51@aol.com and forward some recipes, I always love hearing from you all.  Forward some recipes for me to try.  Have a good month eatting all that chocolate.  Bona Y'all.  Happy trails to you until we meet again.  Eileen Hutson, MadJon.