Chocolate-Toffee Crunch Cake Recipe

        
    1/2 c  butter,softened
  1 1/2 c  sugar
      1 t  vanilla
      2 c  all-purpose flour
  1 1/2 t  baking soda
    1/2 t  salt
    1/2 t  baking powder
  1 1/4 c  buttermilk (or sour milk)
      3    eggs
      3 oz unsweetened chocolate
           -melted and cooled
      6    chocolate covered english
           -toffee,1 3/8 oz bars
      8 oz frozen non-dairy whipped
           -dessert topping,thawed

Grease and flour two 9 X 1 ½-inch round baking pans (be sure pans
area full 1 ½ inches high); set aside. In a large mixing bowl, beat the
butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.
Add sugar and vanilla and bet until combined. Add flour, baking soda,
salt, and baking powder. Add buttermilk or sour milk, eggs, and melted
chocolate. Beat on low speed until combined; beat on high speed for 2
minutes.

Pour batter evenly into prepared pans. Bake in a 350 oven about 25
minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near the center comes out
clean. Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove from pans.
Cool completely on wire racks. Meanwhile, unwrap toffee bars; set two
of the bars aside. Chop the remaining bars.

For frosting, place dessert topping in a large bowl. Gently stir in the
chopped candy. Fill and frost the cooled cake layers. Chop remaining
candy; sprinkle over the top of the cake. Cover; refrigerate to store
up to 24 hours. Makes 16 servings.

Chopped Chicken Livers
       
      1 # chicken livers
      4 oz chicken fat,or purchased
           rendered fat
      4    eggs,boiled
      1    white onion,grated
      1 t  salt
  1 1/2 t  pepper

Boil chicken livers until done.  20 min.  Grate onion fine and saute
in 1 TBSP chicken fat for 10 min on low.  Grate chicken livers, eggs nd
add onion.  Mix well.  Add salt and peper and another TBSP of fat.  Put
in mold and chill.  Serve with bacon thins.

1983 Texas State Fair