Chocolate Sheet Cake
Emily
A deliciously, decadent chocolate cake!
ingredients
- Cake
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 stick butter
- 3 T cocoa
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1 cup water
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- Icing
- 1 stick butter
- 3 T cocoa
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1/2 bag powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup nuts (optional)
directions
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1. Preheat oven to 400
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2. Grease and flour jelly roll pan.
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3. Sift flour and sugar together.
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4. Melt butter in pan, add cocoa, oil and water (gradually) and bring to a boil.
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5. Remove from heat and add to flour mixture.
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6. Add 2 eggs and buttermilk in which 1 tsp backing soda has been dissolved (mix baking soda with approximately 1 T buttermilk then add to remaining buttermilk to avoid lumps.)
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7. Add vanilla and beat well. Pour into greased and floured jelly roll pan
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8. Bake for 25 minutes
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9. Prepare icing 5 minutes before cake is finished.
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10. Bring butter, cocoa, and milk to a boil. Remove from heat and add powdered sugar and vanilla. Beat until smooth.
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11. Spread icing on top of hot cake
notes
This would be an excellent option for my birthday, which is February 24th.
Source: Emily
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