Amish Ho Ho Cake

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 cup milk
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 cup crisco shortening
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 -3 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1/4 cup boiling water
• powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 cook .1 cup milk, 3 tbls flour and 1/2 cup sugar -- leave the lid on so no skin forms -- cool and mix together the following -- 1/2 cup margarine, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 cup crisco shortening,pinch of slat and 1 tsp vanilla --
• 2 add to first mixture and beat well.
• 3 you can spread this between the two layers of cake, or cut each layer in half and you would have 3 layers of filling instead of one.
• 4 to prepare the topping ingredients.
• 5 melt butter and add cocoa powder and blend.add 1/4 cup boiling water and powdered sugar til thick enough --
• 6 pour over cake -- make it thin enough so it will drip over the edges.
• 7 i have really taken some liberties with this recipe for filling -- i have baked different flavored cakes.and use the filling from this.and made glaze co-ordinate with cake flavor.this is a great all purpose recipe -- many ways to use this idea.