Martha's recipe sounds too junky to me. It's overdone with extra calories. Here is the Southern one that I did.
http://southernfood.about.com/od/ban...r/bl90321d.htm
I think this is the orginal recipe. I only used one cup of brown sugar and I didn't use the frosting (typo in my previous posting). the frosting is a killer. The cake taste wonderful without the frosting...