Chocolate Sheet Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

Name: Chocolate Sheet Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting
Prep time: 2 h 5 min
Cook time: 2 h 5 min
Total time: 2 h 5 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking soda; 118 milliliters (1 stick) butter; 355 milliliters (3 sticks) butter; 177 milliliters cocoa powder; 3 larges eggs; 710 milliliters flour; 79 milliliters milk; 946 milliliters powdered sugar (confectioners sugar); 0 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters smooth peanut butter; 177 milliliters sour cream; 710 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract; 118 milliliters chopped walnuts, optional; 355 milliliters hot water

One portion of this dish contains roughly 5g of protein, 21g of fat, and a total of 442 calories. This recipe serves 24. A mixture of walnuts, butter, flour, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 5 minutes. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 18 by 13-inch rimmed baking sheet.

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All Purpose Flour

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Baking Sheet

Oven

In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. In a separate mixing bowl, beat the eggs and mix in the sour cream, and vanilla.

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Baking Soda

Sour Cream

Vanilla

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Egg

Salt

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Mixing Bowl

Add the egg mixture to the flour mixture, mixing until just combined.

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All Purpose Flour

Egg

In a saucepan over medium-high heat, melt the butter and stir in the cocoa powder, and hot water. Bring the mixture to a boil and then remove from the heat. Cool slightly, and incorporate the cocoa mixture with the dry ingredients, mixing just until blended.

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Cocoa Powder

Butter

Water

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Sauce Pan

Pour the batter into the prepared pan.

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Frying Pan

Bake for 25 minutes, or until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool completely.

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Oven

In a large heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter.

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Butter

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Sauce Pan

Add the peanut butter and mix until smooth.

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Peanut Butter

Remove from the heat. In a separate large bowl, whisk together the milk, and powdered sugar until fully incorporated. Stir in the vanilla, and slowly incorporate the peanut butter mixture, blending well after each addition.

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Powdered Sugar

Peanut Butter

Vanilla

Milk

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Whisk

Bowl

Frost the cake while both the frosting and cake are still warm. Top with nuts, if desired.

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Frosting

Nuts

Cook's Note: Making a sheet cake is the best bang for your buck when it comes to dessert for a group. To vamp it up, take small biscuit cutters and create tiered cakes that can be dusted with powdered sugar. Cake scraps can be saved for a delicious trifle the next day.

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Powdered Sugar

Biscuits

Chocolate Fudge Frosting: instead of peanut butter frosting, replace peanut butter in frosting recipe with 1/3 cocoa powder. Prepare the frosting the same way.

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Peanut Butter

Cocoa Powder

Chocolate