Texas Sheet Cake

Ingredients:
1 cup butter
4 heaping tablespoons of cocoa
1 cup boiling water
2 cup sugar
2 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
2 beaten eggs
1/2 cup of buttermilk or sour milk (1/2 cup milk and 3/4 tsp lemon juice)
1/2 tsp cinnamon (my own addition to the recipe)

Directions:
Heat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a 13 by 18 inch pan or sheet cake.  Mix sugar, flour, and salt then set aside.  On the stove top, melt butter.  Add cocoa and mix.  Pour in boiling water and boil for 30 seconds.   Pour over dry ingredients and mix.  Mix vanilla, baking soda, and eggs into buttermilk then pour into the mixture and mix well.  Pour into pan and bake 20 minutes.

Butter Cream Frosting:
1/2 cup of chopped pecans
1 3/4 cup butter
4 heaping tablespoons of cocoa
1 lb powdered sugar
6 tablespoons milk
1 tsp vanilla

Melt butter in a sauce pan then add cocoa.  Remove from heat.  Add milk, vanilla, and powdered sugar and mix.  Add pecans and pour over warm cake.  (I sprinkled cinnamon and sugar over the top.)


Recipe from the Pioneer Woman.