Salad Dressing Chocolate Cake With Easy Shortening Icing - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups sugar
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup Miracle Whip
1 cup warm water
2 teaspoons baking soda (level)
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
Icing
4 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 dash salt
vanilla

Preparation

Stir sugar and cocoa together.
Add salad dressing and mix well.
Dissolve soda in warm water.
Alternate water (with soda) with flour into cream mixture.
Mix well.
Add vanilla.
Bake 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes.
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Icing.
Boil 4 T flour and 1 C milk to thin paste. Cool to lukewarm.
Cream together:
1 C shortening
1 C sugar
dash salt.
Add cooled paste to creamed mixture. Beat. Add vanilla. Beat until fluffy.