Chocolate Sheet Cake

Name: Chocolate Sheet Cake
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking soda; 2 sticks butter; 2 sticks butter; 118 milliliters buttermilk; 4 Tbsps heaping tablespoons cocoa powder; 2 larges eggs; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 6 Tbsps milk; 118 milliliters finely chopped pecans, optional; 454 grams powdered sugar; 0 teaspoons salt; 473 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Need a vegetarian dessert? Chocolate Sheet Cake could be a tremendous recipe to try. This recipe serves 24. One serving contains 332 calories, 2g of protein, and 17g of fat. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of cocoa powder, buttermilk, pecans, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

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In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar and salt. Stir together and set aside.

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All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Bowl

In another bowl, mix the buttermilk, baking soda, vanilla and eggs.

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Baking Soda

Buttermilk

Vanilla

Egg

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Mix with a fork and set aside.

In a medium saucepan, melt the butter and add the cocoa.

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Butter

Cocoa Powder

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Sauce Pan

Whisk together to combine. Meanwhile, bring 1 cup water to a boil. When the butter is melted, pour the boiling water in the pan. Allow to bubble for a moment, then turn off the heat.

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Butter

Water

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Whisk

Frying Pan

Pour the chocolate mixture into the flour mixture. Stir together for a moment to cool the chocolate, then pour in the egg mixture. Stir together until smooth, then pour into an ungreased jelly roll pan (or rimmed baking sheet) and bake for 20 minutes.

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Chocolate

All Purpose Flour

Jelly

Roll

Egg

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Baking Sheet

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While the cake is baking, make the icing: Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat.

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Butter

Icing

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Sauce Pan

Add the cocoa powder and stir until smooth.

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Cocoa Powder

Add the milk, vanilla and powdered sugar. Stir together. Dump in the pecans and stir until well combined.

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Powdered Sugar

Vanilla

Pecans

Milk

Immediately after removing the cake from the oven, pour the warm icing over the top. You'll want to avoid doing much spreading, so try to distribute it evenly as you pour.

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Icing

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For a child's birthday, omit pecans in the icing.

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Pecans

Icing

Serve the cake with a large bowl of M and M's and allow the kids to decorate it themselves.

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M&ms

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This cake can also be made into cupcakes: Just fill muffin tins a little less full with the batter than you normally would so the baked cupcakes remain below the upper rim. That way, the thin icing can be poured into each tin.

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Cupcakes