Cathy's Best Chocolate Cake Ever (with Cocoa Cream Cheese Frosting)

Ing:
1 cup butter, softened
2/1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup cocoa
3 cups sifted flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups milk

Cream butter and sugar unil light. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after eah addition. Add vanilla. Sift together cocoa, flour, baking soda and salt. Add to creamed mix alternatively with buttermilk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Pour into well greased and floured pans. Bake at 350 degrees as follows:

for 3 - 9 inch pans - 30 to 35 minutes
for a 13 by 9 inch pan 55 to 60 minutes


Cream Cheese Frosting:

Blend together 3- 3oz pkg of softened cream cheese and 1/3 cup butter. Mix togetehr 6 cups sifted confectioners sugar and 1 cup cocoa. Add sugar mix to butter mix, gradually. Blend in 5 to 7 tablespoons of light cream.


Yum!