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Great Grandmother’s Texas Sheet cake
This starts in a cold oven, do not preheat oven
2 C flour
2 c sugar
3 T Dutched Cocoa Powder
1 cup water
2 eggs
½ c buttermilk
1 t soda
1 t cinnamon
1 T vanilla
Melt butter with water and Cocoa in a large saucepan, bring to boil, then remove from heat and cool slightly. Add flour and sugar to mixture and mix well.
Add eggs, buttermilk, soda, cinnamon and vanilla
Pour into a greased and floured (or can use cocoa powder to “flour” the pan if you are unmolding to prevent white residue)
Bake at 400 degrees F until toothpick in center comes out clean, about 20-30 minutes
Boiled chocolate Icing
1 stick butter
3 T dutched cocoa
6 T milk (or coffee for mocha)
Bring to boil in large sauce pan, let cool slightly
Add 1 T vanilla
1 c chopped nuts (pecans are traditional)
Mix well. Beat in 3 ½ to 4 ½ powdered sugar
Frost cooled cake with icing while it’s still warm.
This starts in a cold oven, do not preheat oven
2 C flour
2 c sugar
3 T Dutched Cocoa Powder
1 cup water
2 eggs
½ c buttermilk
1 t soda
1 t cinnamon
1 T vanilla
Melt butter with water and Cocoa in a large saucepan, bring to boil, then remove from heat and cool slightly. Add flour and sugar to mixture and mix well.
Add eggs, buttermilk, soda, cinnamon and vanilla
Pour into a greased and floured (or can use cocoa powder to “flour” the pan if you are unmolding to prevent white residue)
Bake at 400 degrees F until toothpick in center comes out clean, about 20-30 minutes
Boiled chocolate Icing
1 stick butter
3 T dutched cocoa
6 T milk (or coffee for mocha)
Bring to boil in large sauce pan, let cool slightly
Add 1 T vanilla
1 c chopped nuts (pecans are traditional)
Mix well. Beat in 3 ½ to 4 ½ powdered sugar
Frost cooled cake with icing while it’s still warm.
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