With this beauty, you won't need a center piece for the party. Life is short. East dessert first.
Ingredients
cup unsweetened cocoa
2 cups boiling water
Note: Ok, I cheated here - I put the cocoa and water in a bowl and microwaved it until it boiled. Probably not the what the author intended - but I'm not sure there were microwaves in '82. "gourmet" cooking is easy if you skip half the steps.
2¾ cup sifted flour
2 t. baking soda
½ t. salt
½ t. baking powder
1 c. margarine
2½ c. sugar
4 eggs
1½ t. vanilla
Instructions
Grease and lightly flour 3, 8" round cake pans. Place a circle of waxed or parchment paper on the bottom of the pan. Preheat the oven to 350.
Combine cocoa and water. Wisk until smooth. Bring to a boil and then cool completely.
Sift flour with soda, salt, and baking powder.
In a separate bowl beat margarine, sugar, eggs and vanilla.
Add flour mixture and cocoa mixture alternately - a little at a time to the sugar mixture.
Divide evenly into pans, smooth top with a spatula.
Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove from pan, peel off waxed paper liner and cool on rack.
Recipe by Table for Fifty at https://tableforfifty.com/meet-marilee-queen-of-frosted-insanity/