Marshmallow Nut Cake

2 cups sugar
2 sticks oleo - better known as butter for all you young people
4 eggs
4 teaspoons coco
1 1/2 cup flour, self rising
2 cups pecans
1 Package of small marshmallows

Cream sugar, oleo(butter), and eggs. Sift flour and coco and blend with the creamed sugar, oleo(butter) and eggs.

Add Pecans.

Bake at 325 for 30 minutes. Turn oven off and take out of oven. Cover with Marshmallow and put the cake back in the oven, the heat will melt the marshmallows.

Icing:

1 box powder sugar(white)
1/2 stick oleo melted (butter)
4 teaspoon coco
1/2 cup pet milk

Beat with rotary beaters (mixer) and pour over cake.


I found this in my grandmother's newspaper clippings. I had to have Tim's help figuring out some of the short hand.