Chocolate Sheet Cake

This is the best chocolate sheet cake I’ve ever made. I got this recipe from The Pioneer Woman. If you haven’t been to her site, you should go, she has the most wonderful recipes and photography. Make this for the chocolate lover in your family right away!

Put your flour in a bowl

Add sugar

And salt

Mix together

Put 2 sticks of butter in a saucepan

Melt away

Measure out some cocoa

Add it into the melted butter

Mix together

Boil some water and add to the chocolate and mix together

Add chocolate to flour

Mix together and let cool, or just stare at it and smell it for a while

To make cleanup easier, mix in a measuring cup the buttermilk…

2 eggs

Beaten

Toss in some baking soda

And vanilla extract

Now that the chocolate mixture is cool, pour into sheet pan

Resist dipping your finger in to taste. Throw in the oven for 20 min.

While cake is baking, repeat steps above for melting butter and adding in cocoa. Then add in the milk…

And vanilla

And the powdered sugar, incorporating a little at a time

The cake is now done, so pour the frosting over the entire cake and don’t lick the bowl clean when done, or do, I absolutely did not.

Let the frosting set, cut into pieces and serve!

Chocolate Sheet Cake
(Printable Recipe)

Ingredients Cake

* 2 cups Flour
* 2 cups Sugar
* ¼ teaspoons Salt
* 4 Tablespoons (heaping) Cocoa
* 2 sticks Butter
* 1 cup Boiling Water
* ½ cups Buttermilk
* 2 whole Beaten Eggs
* 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
* 1 teaspoon Vanilla

Ingredients Frosting

* ½ cups Finely Chopped Pecans
* 1-¾ stick Butter
* 4 Tablespoons (heaping) Cocoa
* 6 Tablespoons Milk
* 1 teaspoon Vanilla
* 1 pound (minus 1/2 Cup) Powdered Sugar

Instructions
Note: I use an 18×13 sheet cake pan.
In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, and salt.

In a saucepan, melt butter. Add cocoa. Stir together.Add boiling water, allow mixture to boil for 30 seconds, then turn off heat. Pour over flour mixture, and stir lightly to cool.

In a measuring cup, pour the buttermilk and add beaten eggs, baking soda, and vanilla. Stir buttermilk mixture into butter/chocolate mixture. Pour into sheet cake pan and bake at 350-degrees for 20 minutes.
While cake is baking, make the icing.

Chop pecans finely. Melt butter in a saucepan. Add cocoa, stir to combine, then turn off heat. Add the milk, vanilla, and powdered sugar. Stir together. Add the pecans, stir together, and pour over warm cake.
Recipe Courtesy of The Pioneer Woman

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