How to Prepare Delicious Texas Sheet Cake

Texas Sheet Cake. The Texas sheet cake is so moist and the icing so sweet that everyone who samples it wants a copy of the recipe. —Susan Ormond, Jamestown, North Carolina. This chocolaty delight was one of my favorites growing up. The Texas sheet cake is so moist and the icing so sweet that everyone who samples it wants a copy of the recipe.

This cake is incredibly easy to make, and calls for simple pantry ingredients. Make sure that you bring plenty of copies of this recipe with you because, believe me, your friends and family will be asking for it. However you share, this cake is the perfect party treat! You can have Texas Sheet Cake using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Texas Sheet Cake

1. Prepare of granulated sugar.
2. You need of unsifted flour.
3. It's of baking soda.
4. You need of salt.
5. Prepare of cocoa powder.
6. Prepare of water.
7. You need of buttermilk.
8. It's of eggs.
9. You need of vanilla extract.
10. Prepare of butter.
11. It's of Icing ingredients:.
12. It's of butter.
13. You need of cocoa powder.
14. Prepare of powdered sugar.
15. Prepare of buttermilk.
16. It's of vanilla extract.
17. It's of chopped pecans.

This is hands-down my all-time favorite cake! I fell in love making it after my grandmother shared the recipe with me. This cake is super quick, easy, and fun to make! Definitely recommend this for first time bakers and anyone else who would love to take a bite out of a delicious chocolate Texas sheet cake.

Texas Sheet Cake instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit..
2. Generously grease and flour a large sheet pan. 17 1/4"x 11 1/2" x 1". I use the aluminum disposable type..
3. Set aside first 4 ingredients in mixing bowl..
4. Melt butter and add cocoa and water. Bring to a boil and pour over first 4 ingredients. Beat until smooth..
5. Add remaining ingredients blending throughly. Pour into prepared sheet pan..
6. Bake for 25-35 minutes until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Prepare icing as soon as you remove cake from oven..
7. Icing.
8. Bring 1 stick butter and 4 tablespoons cocoa powder to a boil. Add following ingredients..
9. 1 lb powdered sugar.
10. 6 tablespoons buttermilk.
11. 1 tsp vanilla.
12. 1 cup chopped pecans.
13. Stir throughly and spread over warm cake..
14. Enjoy!.

Texas Sheet Cake is the perfect party dessert as it both feeds and pleases a crowd. This recipe for Original Texas Sheet Cake with Buttermilk is based on everything the classic cake was meant to be: Super chocolatey, decadently moist and tender, and topped with gooey, fudgy icing. Where Does Texas Sheet Cake Come From? The origins of this cake are murky. Some sources say it may have first shown up in a Texas newspaper, which is why it's called "Texas" sheet cake, while others claim the name comes from the fact that it's the size of Texas.