Bootsy's Chocolate Cake and Cherry Slice

While spring cleaning today, I came across two recipes my Grandma made famous in our family.

Bootsy's Chocolate Cake: Cream 1/2 cup of margarine, 1 cup of sugar, 1 egg (set aside), 1 cup of flour, 1 tsp. of soda, 1 tsp. of baking powder (set aside), add one cup of boiling water to 3 tbsp. of cocoa and yes, set aside. Then alternately add dry inigredients and cocoa mixture to creamed mixture. Then grease an 8X8 pan and bake at 325 deg. for 45 minutes. Cool and ice.

Cherry Slice: 2 cups of white sugar, 1 cup of margarine, 4 eggs, 3 cups of flour, 1-1 1/2 tsp. of almond flavoring. t 1tsp. of vanilla, 1 can of cherry pie filling. Cream well with a mixer, the sugar, and margarine. Add eggs, flour, flavoring and vanilla and mix well. Line a cookie sheet pan wth 1/2 of this mixture (I'm not sure where the other 1/2 of the mixture is suppose to go? Perhaps on another pan? Perhaps over top. Grammy is no longer with us, so I am unable to ask her). Spread cherry pie filling over mixture. Bake at 325 degrees until done. May be iced with icing while warm.

P.S. I made this chocolate cake this afternoon and OH MY GOD, it is amazing. My mom has started baking it and it is so damn good.