(by Shirley McNevich)
1 cup white sugar
3 cups flour
3/4 cup butter (softened)
2 eggs
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup boiling water
3/4 cup Brer Rabbit green label baking molasses
1/4 cup King syrup molasses
Frosting: 5 TBSP Domino's dark brown sugar; 3 TBSP butter; 2 TBSP
milk; 1 cup Baker's angelflake coconut
In a mixer add white sugar and eggs--beat. Add butter--beat. Add
baking soda, baking powder--beat. Add both types of molasses--beat.
Add boiling water--beat. Slowly add flour--beat until smooth. Pour
batter into a greased 9 x 13 cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40
minutes--cool cake slightly. Frosting--in a saucepan over medium heat
add 2 TBSP butter, brown sugar and milk--stir and bring to a boil, then
boil until it starts to thicken. Remove saucepan from stove--add
coconut and stir. Frost the cake.
 
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This recipe is from Shirley McNevich's first Mom's Best Recipes Volume 5. Published here with permission.
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