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CHOCOLATE SHEET CAKE Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
CAKE:
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick oleo
1/2 cup Crisco
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup water
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon soda

ICING:
1 box powdered sugar
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 stick oleo
6 tablespoons sweet milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts
Marshmallows, optional (I always use)**
Directions:
Directions:
In mixing bowl put 2 cups sugar, 2 cups flour, and ½ teaspoon salt.
In small saucepan put 1 stick oleo, 1 cup water, ½ cup Crisco and 3 tablespoons cocoa.
Bring to a boil and pour over dry ingredients. Mix well and add 2 eggs, ½ cup buttermilk to which 1 teaspoon soda has been added and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix well and pour into greased and floured pan about 11 x 15 inches (like a sided cookie sheet).

Bake 20 minutes in a 350-degree oven. **

When cake has been baking about 15 minutes, prepare icing as follows:
In saucepan put 1 box powdered sugar, 3 tablespoons coca, 1 stick oleo, 6 tablespoons sweet milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 1 cup chopped nuts. Melt over heat, but do not boil. Pour over cake while both are still hot. Do not take cake from pan until it has cooled and been cut into squares. (I usually add everything except the powdered sugar and get it melted and then added the sugar gradually stirring it in and mixing everything well.)

When cake is almost ready (start checking at about 10-15 minutes), I put marshmallows (cut in two horizontally) on top of cake and press them down a little. Continue baking until marshmallows are soft, not necessarily brown. Pour icing over marshmallows and spread, mixing (swirling) the marshmallows and icing.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
The original recipe did not call for the marshmallows, I just added them. I have the icing already getting hot before I put the marshmallows on because it doesn’t take long for marshmallows to soften on top of cake and because the icing needs to be well mixed and of pouring consistency when you take the cake out of the oven.

 

 

 

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