Texas Sheet Cake Recipe

This easy Texas Sheet Cake recipe is perfect when you need to feed a crowd! It’s a favorite Southern Classic Recipe for a sweet and delicious chocolate cake covered in the best fudgy homemade icing.

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This easy Texas Sheet Cake recipe is perfect when you need to feed a crowd! It’s a favorite Southern Classic Recipe for a sweet and delicious chocolate cake covered in the best homemade icing.

It's packed with a rich deep chocolate flavor, sweet, and delicious. Kids and adults alike won't be able to get enough when you serve it up!

WHAT IS TEXAS SHEET CAKE

A Texas Sheet Cake is HUGE, just like the good old state of Texas! It's a southern classic recipe that serves big families when they get together for Sunday supper, church functions, or the holidays.

This recipe is easy to make using basic ingredients from your kitchen. You probably already have on hand what you need to get started.

INGREDIENTS FOR A TEXAS SHEET CAKE

Here's what you'll need to get started:

• Flour
• Sugar
• Salt
• Cocoa
• Butter
• Boiling Water
• Buttermilk
• Eggs
• Baking Soda                                         
• Vanilla

For the icing:

• Butter
• Cocoa
• Milk
• Vanilla
• Powdered Sugar

HOW TO MAKE THIS TEXAS SHEET CAKE

FIRST STEP: Lightly spray an 18×13” baking sheet with cooking spray and set aside. Preheat your oven to 350°.

SECOND STEP: In a large mixing bowl combine your flour, sugar, and salt.

THIRD STEP: In a large saucepan over medium-low heat, melt your butter. Add your cocoa powder and whisk together. Add boiling water and whisk it into the mixture.

STEP FOUR: In a separate small bowl, combine your buttermilk, eggs, baking soda, and vanilla and whisk together. Stir the buttermilk mixture into the chocolate mixture and whisk together. Mix with the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, and salt).

STEP FIVE: Pour the batter into the sheet cake pan and bake at 350° degrees for 20 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and poke to make fork holes across the top (so that the yummy frosting goes down into the cake just a little bit and makes it even that much better!

STEP SIX: While your cake is baking start your frosting by melting your butter in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Add your cocoa and whisk together. Turn off heat. Add your milk, vanilla and powdered sugar (sift it in while whisking instead of just dumping all of it in at once). Stir until no lumps remain.

STEP SEVEN: Pour your frosting over your Texas Sheet Cake and let cool for about 10-15 minutes before serving (if you can wait that long)!

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SHEET CAKE AND REGULAR CAKE RECIPE

The difference between a Texas sized sheet cake and a regular 9x13 cake is the size of the pan that they are baked in. Sheet cakes are baked in large 18 x 13 ” baking sheet.

They are widely available at Walmart, Target, Costco, and are a standard sized pan.

This makes sheet cakes a great idea when feeding a large group of people.

HOW TO STORE THIS CAKE RECIPE

This sheet cake will stay good for up to 4-5 days at room temperature, just be sure to cover it with foil. This cake doesn’t need to be refrigerated and will stay moist due to the frosting that soaks into the cake.

Texas Sheet Cake

This easy Texas Sheet Cake recipe is perfect when you need to feed a crowd! It’s a favorite Southern Classic Recipe for a sweet and delicious chocolate cake covered in the best fudgy homemade icing.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 45 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 12

Calories 636 kcal

Ingredients

  

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Cake:

• 2 cups Flour
• 2 cups Sugar
• ¼ tsp Salt
• 4 tbs Cocoa
• 2 sticks Butter
• 1 cup Boiling Water
• ½ cup Buttermilk
• 2 Eggs, whisked together
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tsp Vanilla

Icing:

• 1 and ¾ stick Butter
• 4 tbs Cocoa
• 6 tbs Milk
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 1 pound Powdered Sugar

DIRECTIONS

 

• Lightly spray an 18×13 baking sheet with cooking spray and set aside.Preheat your oven to 350°.
• In a large mixing bowl combine your flour, sugar, and salt.
• In a large sauce pan over medium-low heat melt your butter. Add your cocoa powder and whisk together.
• Add boiling water and whisk it into the mixture.
• In a separate small bowl combine your buttermilk, eggs, baking soda and vanilla and whisk together. Stir buttermilk mixture into chocolate mixture and whisk together. Mix with dry ingredients (flour, sugar, and salt).
• Pour into sheet cake pan and bake at 350° degrees for 20 minutes.Remove from the oven and poke with forks (so that the yummy frosting goes down into the cake just a little bit and makes it even that much better).
• While your cake is baking start your frosting by melting your butter in a large saucepan over med-low heat. Add your cocoa and whisk together. Turn off heat. Add your milk, vanilla and powdered sugar (sift it in while whisking instead of just dumping all of it in at once). Stir until no lumps remain.
• Pour your frosting over your cake and let cool for about 10-15 minutes before serving.

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Notes

Recipe Adapted From: Spaceships and Laser Beams

Nutrition

Serving: 1piece | Calories: 636kcal | Carbohydrates: 90g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 31g | Saturated Fat: 19g | Cholesterol: 105mg | Sodium: 433mg | Potassium: 115mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 71g | Vitamin A: 951IU | Calcium: 40mg | Iron: 2mg

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