Chocolate Sheet Cake

Name: Chocolate Sheet Cake
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 2 c granulated sugar; 2 c sifted all-purpose flour; 2 stick butter or margarine; 4 Tbsp cocoa, unsweetened; 1 c water; 1/2 c buttermilk; 2 eggs, beaten; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp cinnamon; 1 tsp vanilla extract; ICING; 1 stick butter or margarine; 4 Tbsp cocoa; 6 Tbsp buttermilk; Dash salt; 1 box sifted confectioners' sugar; 1 tsp vanilla; 1 c chopped pecans

By Sandy Young
@CerrillosSandy

If you were to look at this recipe in the First Baptist Church of Pascagoula Cookbook, you'd see it called Chocolate Sheath Cake. Just like a dress, I guess. It's so good (and easy) and has fed many a hungry child and adult!

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Cook:

20 Min

Ingredients

2 c

granulated sugar
2 c

sifted all-purpose flour
2 stick

butter or margarine
4 Tbsp

cocoa, unsweetened
1 c

water
1/2 c

buttermilk
2

eggs, beaten
1 tsp

baking soda
1 tsp

cinnamon
1 tsp

vanilla extract
ICING
1 stick

butter or margarine
4 Tbsp

cocoa
6 Tbsp

buttermilk
Dash

salt
1 box

sifted confectioners' sugar
1 tsp

vanilla
1 c

chopped pecans
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How to Make Chocolate Sheet Cake

Step-by-Step

Sift together sugar and flour.
Mix in saucepan the butter, cocoa, and water. Bring to boil; pour over sugar and flour and mix well.
Add remaining ingredients. Mix well and pour in a well-greased 11"x16'" pan. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
Icing: Mix the following and bring to a boil: butter, cocoa, buttermilk, and salt.
Remove from heat and add 1 box of sifted confectioners' sugar, 1 teaspoonful vanilla, and 1 cup chopped pecans. Beat until smooth.
Poke holes with toothpick in hot cake. Pour hot icing over hot cake. Cool and cut into squares. Delicious by itself or with ice cream!