Crazy Cake With Two Icings

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups lukewarm water
• 2 tablespoons white vinegar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 2 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1/4 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons corn syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 for cake:.
• 2 preheat oven to 350.
• 3 stir first 5 ingredients directly into an ungreased 9x13 cake pan.
• 4 in a bowl, stir together water, vinegar, and vanilla; pour over dry ingredients.
• 5 pour oil over all.
• 6 using a fork, stir until mixture is a uniform color and has no lumps.
• 7 bake 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 8 cool completely in pan then frost with icing #1 and drizzle icing #2 over that.
• 9 icing #1.
• 10 whisk together flour and milk in a small saucepan over medium-high heat; cook, whisking constantly, until mixture has thickened.
• 11 remove from heat and cool to room temperature.
• 12 beat butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
• 13 add flour mixture and beat until icing is fluffy and sugar is dissolved.
• 14 icing #2.
• 15 needs to be scaled way down because if you use it all it makes a big soupy mess on top of the cake so i always throw most of this away!
• 16 combine first 5 ingredients in a saucepan over medium heat until butter melts, stirring well.
• 17 increase heat to medium-high and bring to a boil; cook 1 minute, without stirring.
• 18 remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
• 19 beat until thick.
• 20 i always use one of those squirt bottles you can get anywhere for this step; pour into squirt bottle and drizzle as much as you want on top of cake over icing #1.