Stout's Texas Fudge Cake

1/2 lb margarine

1 cup water

2 cups sugar

4 Tbsp cocoa

1/2 tsp slat

2 cups flour

2 well beaten eggs

1/2 pint sour cream

**if you do not have sour cream, take 1 cup milk and mix with 1 Tbsp vinegar)

1 tsp soda

Heat and stir margarine, cocoa and water until boiling. Remove from heat, add remaining ingredients. Use large, flat pan - very large cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes. Ice while warm.

Icing:

1/4 lb margarine

6 Tbsp milk

4 Tbsp cocoa

1 lb powdered sugar

1 cup nuts or coconut

1 tsp vanilla

Boil first 3 ingredients, remove from heat, add rest of ingredients and beat with spoon. Pour over cake.

I just had to have this recipe and my brother in law makes it several times a year. His mother Naomi Stout put this in her ward cookbook one year. As of yet, I have not made this with the nuts or coconuts, this is a wonderful and very moist cake. LOVE IT! Thanks Joe for sharing!