Instructions: Build fire, developing a bed of coals. Grease and flour smallest pot you have. In a separate medium pot, mix flour, milk powder, baking powder and salt.

In lid, cream margarine and sugar. Add egg, combine until smooth. Melt chocolate over fire with a little water, being careful not to burn chocolate. Add chocolate and brandy to margarine, sugar and egg mixture. Stir into dry ingredients with enough water to make a smooth, thick batter. Scrape into greased, floured pot and cover.

Clear a space in front of fire and set pot in it. Rake hot ashes around pot at least halfway up sides. Depending on size of pot, temperature of coals, and weather, cake should take 25-30 minutes. Rotate pot in coals to bake evenly, adding ashes if fire seems cool. Cake is done when knife inserted into center comes out clean. Cool in pot, then run knife around edge and turn it out.

For icing: Melt chocolate in pot lid with enough water to keep it from scorching. Chocolate should be thick and smooth. Add margarine, stir until melted, remove from heat. Add brandy. Cool until chocolate thickens. (On hot day, setting frosting container in cool creek water helps.) When chocolate has frosting consistency, ice cake.

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