Icing:

1 stick butter
2 oz. cream cheese
1 tsp. vanilla
1 lb. powdered sugar

Mix powdered sugar with ingredients. Ice cake. Sprinkle one to two cups of chopped pecans over cake.

Cake:

2 c. oil
1 tsp. baking soda
4 tsp. cocoa
2 oz. red food coloring

Cream sugar with oil and eggs and beat until creamy. Sift salt and soda together with the flour. Add the cocoa, food coloring, and vinegar to sugar and eggs.

Beat well. Slowly add flour mixture. Then add buttermilk and vanilla and beat well.

Bake at 325°F using toothpick to separate edges from sides of pan. Does well in any kind of pan.