Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake

Amazing from scratch chocolate cake with melt in your mouth chocolate frosting.

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 25

Total Time 55

Servings 16

Author Marty's Musings

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

Since I never have buttermilk I pour just a bit less milk and add a small amount of white vinegar to sour the milk.
I forgot to mix the walnuts in with the chocolate frosting so I sprinkled them on top instead.