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Chocolate Sheet Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Mix together in electric mixer bowl:
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour

Put the following in a saucepan and bring to a boil: Then add to sugar/flour mixture and beat with electric mixer for 1 minute:
1 stick butter
4 heaping Tbsp cocoa
1 cup water
1/2 cup cooking oil

Mix in small bowl:
1/2 cup buttermilk ( Note: you can make buttermilk out of regular milk by adding 1 Tbsp of white vinegar to 1/2 cup of regular milk)
2 eggs slightly beaten
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla extract

Add to other mixture and beat with electric mixer for 3 minutes.

Pour into 11 X 16 prepared cookie sheet with sides (at least 1/2 inch) and bake at 350 degrees for 25 a 30 minutes. Remove from oven and pour Chocolate Icing (recipe included) over hot cake. Spread as needed.
Directions:
Directions:
CHOCOLATE SHEET CAKE ICING

Put following in a medium size saucepan and bring to a boil:

1 stick butter
4 heaping Tbsp cocoa
1/3 cup whole milk

Sift 1 box Confectioners Sugar (1 lb) and add gradually to chocolate mixture in saucepan while beating with electric hand mixer. Beat until smooth. Pour icing over cooked Chocolate Sheet Cake while still warm.

Note: May add 1 cup chopped nuts to icing BEFORE spreading on cake OR sprinkle nuts (or colored sprinkles) over icing AFTER spreading icing on cake. I sprinkle 1/2 cup nuts on one half of cake and colored sprinkles on the other half to make everybody happy!
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
24
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
1. 1/2 hour
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Traditional Family RecipeOriginal recipe was given to Mimi in 1964 at a bridal shower by the original Mimi - Jenola Googe, my beloved mother-in-law. Some variation now appears in almost every cookbook published! Sarah Googe tasted her first Chocolate Sheet Cake when she was about three. A little later when served another kind of cake, she told everyone,"That's not cake." We now refer to the Chocolate Sheet Cake as simply "Cake."
Love to all, Mimi

 

 

 

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