Cocoa Fudge Cake - Happy Father's day!

For Father's Day I made a double batch of this cake, which is really super easy, and turned one batch into a 9x13 cake, and the other into an 8x8 and 15 cupcakes... large cake for my family and my dad, cupcakes for Chuck (and us... lol), and 8x8 for his parents. I topped the cakes with whipped cream and then decorator's icing. The cupcakes have no whipped topping, as we'll be adding that seperately later.

Cocoa Fudge Cake

Ingredients

-1 2/3 cup flour
-1 1/2 cup sugar
-2/3 cucp cocoa
-1 1/2 tsp baking soda
-salt
-1 1/2 cup buttermilk (or 1 Tbsp lemon juice mixed with milk to make 1 1/2 cup)
-1/2 cup shortening
-2 eggs
-1 tsp vanilla

Heat oven to 350F. Grease and flour pans (see below). Beat all ingredients in a large mixer bowl on low 30 seconds, scraping constantly. Beat on high, scraping bowl occasionally, 3 minutes. Pour into pans.

Bake until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. cool. Frost if desired.

13x9 pan - 35-40 min
2 round 8 or 9inch layers - 30-35min
bundt cake pan - 40-45 min
2 1/2 dozencupcakes (fill 1/2 in papers) - 20 min