Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake

I have always called this "Mom's" Chocolate Sheet Cake and I bet I have made this cake more than 200 times!  Always comes out perfect and pairs perfectly with Blue Bell's Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream.  There are 3 versions listed for icing.  One is the fudge icing which is divine for all us chocolate lovers!   Then Rocky Road which you just add marshmallows and pecans and top with the warm fudge icing.. Lastly one is "Matti's" icing my grandmother Queenie's favorite!  The icing sinks into the cake and makes it oh so moist (if it can get any moister!) it has a kinda caramel taste to it.

Oh and the best thing about this cake is you don't have to use a mixer!!!  Just stir by hand!

                              Mom’s Chocolate Cake

                                  (Texas sheet cake)

2 Cups of flour

2 cups sugar

1 tsp baking soda

1 stick of butter

3 T cocoa

1 cup water

½ cup of Crisco

2 eggs

½ cup buttermilk

1 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Grease and flour pan set aside

Step 1

Sift together flour, sugar and baking soda place in large bowl.

Step 2

Bring to boil

Butter, cocoa, water and Crisco

Pour over flour mixture and stir

Step 3

Add buttermilk, eggs and vanilla stirring until well blended.

Pour into greased and floured pan bake for 20 minutes at 400 degrees

Fudge Icing

1 stick of butter

3 T cocoa

1/3 cup of milk

1 box of powder sugar  (16 oz)

1 cup of chopped pecans (optional)

1 tsp vanilla

In a pan add butter, cocoa and milk until thickens like pudding then add

Powder sugar a little at a time stirring well.  Add vanilla

Pour over hot cake and enjoy

Alternates for cake

Make a rocky road cake

Right when cake comes out of oven pour mini marshmallows on top of cake and some pecans then add icing.

Mattie’s Icing

2 cups of sugar

1 small can of pet or carnation milk

1 stick of butter

In a sauce pan add sugar then pour pet milk and cook until it starts to boil put

In butter let boil to soft boil take off burner and beat in vanilla and a dash of salt.

Pour over hot cake…