About the icing – I use approximately the same recipe but don’t work as hard as you do.

About 5 minutes before the cake is done, I melt the butter, add the cocoa and stir it up (seems to blend better with butter than with milk) – then add the milk and vanilla and keep it warm; then wait till I am ready to take the cake out of the oven to add the sifted powdered sugar, mix it up with a spoon and put on top of the hot cake – it starts to melt and spreads great. We don’t wait to cut it – we like it hot and the melted icing tastes great with a big glass of cold milk.

I love this site and think Ree did a great job letting all of us share our recipes. I’ll be checking all your recipes because if you make this cake, you must make lots of other good things.