Our Country Life in the Big City

This is a wonderfully easy frosting and oh so good!  This frosting is creamy but hard all at the same time.  It will frost 2 - 8 inch layers.

2 cups sugar   

1 stick of unsalted butter

3 way heaping Tbs. cocoa

2/3 cup Evaporated milk

1/4 tsp salt

2 tsp. vanilla

Combine everything but vanilla in a medium sized boiler.  Cook over high heat stirring constantly with a wooden spoon (only use wooden or it just doesn't work right).  When the butter is melted and the frosting is really bubbling vigorously, cook for 4 more minutes while stirring.  Cut off heat and add vanilla.  Remove to somewhere cooler and stir until it begins to firm up.  Frost your cake in a hurry because once it starts hardening, it does so quickly. 

This will work on a chocolate or butter cake.