Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake
Why I Love This Recipe
Ingredients You'll Need
Cake
1 C butter (2 sticks)
1 C water
4 T cocoa
2 C granulated sugar
2 C all purpose flour
1/2 t salt
1 t baking soda
2 eggs
1/2 dairy sour cream
1 t vanilla
Icing
1/2 C butter (1 stick)
4 T cocoa
6 T milk
1 lb powder sugar
1 C pecans (optional)
1 t vanilla
Directions
Cake:
Combine butter, water and cocoa in a sacepan.
Bring it to a boil.
Remove it from heat.
In a bowl, mix sugar, flour, salt, baking soda, eggs
When butter mixture is cool, add sugar mixture.
Then add sour cream and vanilla. Mix well.
Pour into a greased and floured jelly roll pan (9x13) and bake for 20 min in a 350 degree oven.
Use toothpick to test - Do not over bake.
Icing
Combine butter, cocoa and milk in saucepan
Bring mixture to a boil.
Stir in remaining ingredients
Pour icing over cake as soon as it is removed from the oven.
Let set
