Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake
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I’ve been posting recipes on the blog here since late 2011 and I really have to apologize.
Until more recently my pictures of food were quite unappealing.
Here’s the evidence. A before and after of the recipe I’m sharing today.
Ummm, that before is so terrible.
I apologize for making you, my readers, want to run to a “real” food blog and find a dish that looks appetizing!
I commit to you to continue to work on my photography.
So as a peace offering I’m sharing this Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake.
Again. With yummy pictures.
For those of you who’ve been reading Marty’s Musings for a while, I thank you.
You are brave souls.
Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake
Ingredients
FOR THE CAKE
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 4 tbs heaping cocoa
- 2 sticks butter
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 beaten eggs
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla
FOR FROSTING
- 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts optional
- 1 3/4 stick butter
- 4 tbs heaping cocoa
- 6 tbs milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 lb. powdered sugar
Instructions
- Grease and flour 10x15 glass dish.
- In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar and salt.
- In a saucepan, melt butter. Add cocoa and 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 small bowl pour the buttermilk and beaten eggs together. Add baking soda and vanilla.
- Stir buttermilk mixture into butter/chocolate mixture.
- Pour into 10x15 glass dish and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
- While cake is baking, make the icing. Melt butter in a saucepan. Add cocoa, stir to combine, then turn off heat.
- Add the milk, vanilla and powdered sugar and stir together. Pour over warm cake and sprinkle with chopped walnuts.
Notes
I forgot to mix the walnuts in with the chocolate frosting so I sprinkled them on top instead.
Be sure to check out more of my (good looking and great tasting) desserts!
Ugly but Delicious Peanut Butter Truffles
Linking with: Stone Gable, Uncommon Slice of Suburbia, Crafty Texas Girls, Inside BruCrew Life, Today’s Creative Blog,Balancing Beauty and Bedlam, Savvy Southern Style, Seven Thirty Three, The Shabby Nest, 504 Main, Imparting Grace
Anything in a puddle of chocolate has to be amazing. Great job on the photos. I am sold!
Cheers,
Stephanie
I love chocolate, too! Thanks for the compliment on the photos, too! I’m learning to take better pictures along the way! Have a blessed weekend!
OMG! YUM!
I would love for you to share and link up at my TGIF Link Party.
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Hugs, Cathy
A friend use to make this and it is totally delicious. Thanks so much for the recipe. This one I will definitley make. Thanks tons for joining Inspire Me. Hugs, Marty
Beautiful post ~ I can almost taste it!
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The chocolatey gooey goodness looks way to tasty this early in the morning. I can’t wait to try it. I also think I would prefer the walnuts sprinkled on top instead of mixed into the frosting. I think it looks better that way!
Thanks, Victoria, for commenting on my Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake! It is chocolate ooey gooey goodness at its best!
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Oh my heavens, Marty ~ you have given me the vapors ~ this cake looks and sounds absolutely fabulous.
Thanks so much for sharing at Project Inspire{d} ~ pinning {of course!}
Hugs,
Mary Beth
Hi, Mary Beth. You crack me up! I gave you the “vapors!” I surely haven’t heard that lately! Thanks for pinning my project and hosting the link party each week. If you have time and want to link up we’d love to have you at Home{work} Wednesday:https://www.martysmusings.net/2013/05/new-link-party-and-100-visa-card-giveaway.html There’s also a giveaway and our party is small so come enter!
Marty