Grandma Stoddards Texas Sheet Cake Food

TEXAS SHEET CAKE

Steps:

• CAKE: Melt 1 cup of the butter.
• Stir in 1/4 cup of the cocoa.
• Add 1 cup water.
• Boil, then remove from heat.
• In a mixing bowl, mix the flour, brown sugar, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
• Add the chocolate mixture and beat well.
• Stir in 1/3 cup of the condensed milk, the eggs and the vanilla.
• Pour into greased jelly roll pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
• FROSTING: Melt the remaining 1/4 cup butter, the remaining 1/4 cup cocoa and remaining condensed milk.
• Stir in powdered sugar and nuts.
• Spread onto warm cake.

OLD FASHION SHEET CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven 350 degrees.
• Prepare 13x9" cake pan by coating with a thin film of butter and dusting with cocoa powder.
• sift flour and sugar together in large bowl.
• Melt butter with 1 cup of boiling water and cocoa, just until butter is melted Pour over flour/sugar mixture and add beaten eggs, baking soda, buttermilk and salt.
• Stir until well mixed. Use mixer to beat eggs only,,,mix in and mix cake well by hand
• Pour into cake pan, spreading evenly and bake for 22 to 25min.
• Frosting make frosting while cake bakes.
• Melt butter over medium-low heat Add cocoa and milk, stirring constantly.
• Pour over powdered sugar and mix well.
• Add vanilla and stir until smooth Add nuts and pour over warm cake.

TEXAS SHEET CAKE

Steps:

• For cake: Sift together sugar and flour in a large bowl; set aside.
• Combine butter, shortening, cocoa and water in a medium saucepan over medium high heat.
• Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, until butter and shortening melt.
• Remove from heat and pour over sugar mixture, stirring until dissolved.
• Cool slightly.
• Stir in Buttermilk, eggs, baking soda and vanilla.
• Pour into a greased and lightly floured 15- x 10-inch jellyroll pan.
• Bake at 400°F for 20 minutes.
• (Cake will have a fudge-like texture.).
• For Chocolate Icing: Combine butter, cocoa and milk in a medium saucepan.
• Cook over low heat for about 5 minutes until butter melts.
• Bring to a boil over medium heat.
• Remove from heat and stir in sugar and vanilla.
• Beat at medium speed with electric mixer until smooth and sugar dissolves.
• Stir in pecans and spread over top of hot cake.

TEXAS SHEET CAKE

Steps:

• Cake:Melt butter, cocoa, and water and bring to a rapid boil.
• Pour over sugar and flour mixture and mix with an electric mixer.
• Add buttermilk, eggs, soda and vanilla and mix well.
• Mixture will be very runny.
• Pour into 11x16 greased sheet cake pan.
• Bake 20 minutes at 400 degrees.
• Cake is done when it begins to pull away from the sides of the pan.
• Bake time will vary with different ovens.
• Leave cake in pan and cool before icing.
• Icing: Mix first 3 ingredients and bring to a rapid boil, remove from heat and add powdered sugar and vanilla.
• Beat with mixer until smooth.
• Stir in pecans by hand and spread on cooled cake.

GRANDMA STODDARD'S TEXAS SHEET CAKE

Steps:

• For Cake:.
• Grease 10x15x2 pan (jelly roll pan).
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• In a medium saucepan, bring to a boil: butter, water and cocoa. Remove from heat and set aside.
• In a medium mixing bowl, sift together: sugar, flour and salt.
• In a seperate bowl, beat together: eggs, buttermilk (or sour cream), vinegar, vanilla and baking soda.
• Pour both the egg/milk mixture and the warm chocolate mixture into the flour mixture. Stir until well mixed.
• Pour warm batter into greased pan.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes.
• While cake is baking, prepare frosting.
• For frosting:.
• Bring to a boil: butter, cocoa and milk.
• Add: powdered sugar, vanilla and nuts.
• Spread on cake immediately after removing cake from oven. Must be hot spread easily.