Ingredients

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter

1 egg

1 1/2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

4 tablespoons cocoa

2/3 cup milk

1 teaspooon vanilla

1/3 cup boiling water

Preparation

Cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg and vanilla. Put dry ingredients in a bowl and “wet” ingredients in another bowl. Alternate adding some dry, then some wet, to the butter sugar mixture.

Pour batter into a greased baking pan.

Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.