Texas Cake and Carmel Icing

Texas Cake with Carmel Icing

Texas Cake
Boil & add to below mixture warm.
   1 cup butter or margarine
   1/4 cup cocoa
   1 cup water

Mix
   2 1/2 cups flour
   2 cups sugar
   3/4 to 1 cup sour cream
   1 teaspoon baking soda
   2 eggs
   1 tsp vanilla

Bake at 400 for 18 minutes in a greased cookie sheet.

Carmel Icing - this is my great-grandma Nola Larsen's recipe
1 cube maragine or butter
1 cup brown sugar
Boil for 2 minutes. Stir in 1/2 cup milk. Bring to boil again. Cool to lukewarm and then add 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar.  Frost cake and enjoy!