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Grandma’s Texas Sheet Cake (1980)

Grandma’s Texas Sheet Cake (1980)

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
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Servings

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups Flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 .5 sticks butter
  • 4 Tbls cocoa
  • 1 cup Water
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 stick butter for icing
  • 1 box powdered sugar for icing
  • 6 Tbls buttermilk

Instructions

Preparation

  • 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.2 Sift sugar, flour, baking soda, and salt into a bowl. 3 Melt butter, cocoa, and water, and bring to a rapid boil. Pour over dry ingredients. 4 Add buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla. 5 Bake in cookie sheet pan with tall edges for 15-20 minutes. 6 For icing, melt butter on stove and add cocoa and buttermilk. Bring to a boil and pour over powdered sugar. Mix well. Add pinch salt and 1 tsp vanilla. Spread over cake while cake and icing are hot. 7 Let rest and serve.

Special instructions

  • This is my Grandma Baskette's recipe, and I promise you, it feeds many with its rich and chocolatey deliciousness!
  • The ingredients "2 cups sugar" through "1 tsp vanilla" are for the cake. After that, the three ingredients are for the icing.
  • Source: My mom's cookbook.