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       Title: Easy Chocolate Sheet Cake
  Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
       Yield: 12 servings
  
         c  Buttermilk
       1 ts Baking soda
     1/2 c  Butter or margarine
       1 c  Water
     1/2 c  Vegetable oil or melted
            ; shortening
     1/4 c  Cocoa
       2    Eggs; lightly beaten
       1 ts Vanilla
       2 c  All-purpose flour; sifted
       2 c  Sugar
       1 ts Cinnamon
            Chocolate frosting; * see
            -note
  
   Preheat oven to 400. Grease and flour a 13x9x2-inch baking
   pan. Stir together buttermilk and soda in measuring cup or
   small bowl and reserve for later use.
   Combine butter, water, oil, and cocoa in medium saucepan;
   bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring to melt butter.
   Remove pan from heat and stir in buttermilk mixture. Add
   eggs and vanilla; blend thoroughly. Stir in flour, sugar,
   and cinnamon until blended. Pour batter into prepared pan.
   Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until cake begins to pull away
   from sides of pan and toothpick inserted in center comes
   out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack. Spread with Chocolate
   Frosting.
   *  CHOCOLATE FROSTING:   1/2 cup)  butter or margarine,
   1/4 cup milk,  1/4 cup cocoa,  4 cups sifted confectioners'
   sugar,  (about 1 pound),  1 teaspoon vanilla.   Combine
   butter, milk, and cocoa in medium saucepan. Bring to a boil
   over medium heat, stirring to melt butter. Remove from
   heat; gradually stir in sugar and vanilla. Stir until
   smooth.
  
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