Texas Sheet Cake

2 cups flour

2 cups sugar

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp cinnamon

(set this aside)

In another bowl:

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. soda

1/2 cup buttermilk

Stir into dry mixture and beat with a mixer

In a sauce pan:

1 cup water

3 T. cocoa

2 sticks oleo

Bring this to a boil and boil 3 to 5 minutes

(until oleo melts)

Take from stove beat with mixer into the eggs

and flour mixture

Bake on a cookie sheet at 350º about 25 minutes

Icing

While cake bakes make this so you can put on cake as

soon as you remove from oven.

1 stick oleo

3 T. cocoa

6 T. milk

1 box powder sugar

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1 cup nuts

Beat until creamy (this will be thick)

Spread over cake while hot