Chocolate Raspberry Grooms Cake

                                                               Recipe from

                                                               Barbara Putnum

Cream: 1\2 cup shortening

      2 cups sugar

      1 egg 

Stir in:   2\3 cup buttermilk 

Mix in: 3 Tbs. cocoa powder

       2 cups flour

       1 cup boiling water with 1 1\2 tsp. baking soda 

Add:  1 tsp. vanilla

       1\2 tsp. salt

Pour into greased/floured Parchment lined 9x13” pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.  Drizzle with Raspberry Syrup (from Starbucks).  Frost sides of cake with Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting.

             Top frosting

      1 1\3 cup sugar

      6 Tbs. Milk

      6 Tbs. Butter

Boil for 1 minute; remove from heat and add 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips.  Pour over cake (sets quickly).  Shave Hershey bars and put on sides and top of cake.  Place fresh raspberries on top.