This is another one of my childhood favorites! I call it Mom's Chocolate Sheet Cake but around here in Texas it can be known as Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake!
I bet I have made this cake over 250 times, really! I don't even use a mixer for this cake I just stir it all by hand! It's never failed me yet! It's such a moist cake by itself then you make this fudge like icing and pour it over while it's still hot/warm! Get some Blue Bell-homemade vanilla ice cream and there is just not much that can top this delicious goodness (well you could top it with some velvet fudge sauce-recipe is on the blog:)
There are several variations to this; fudge icing, Mattie's icing and Mississippi Mud Cake. All are listed below in the recipe. Mattie's icing was my grandmother Queenie's (yes, she thought she was a Queen:) fav! Mattie was a friend of hers and our whole family. Queenie and Mattie were two peas in a pod! Both short, petite and the best of friends! I have sooooo many good memories of my Grandmother but my most favorite is I would listen to her play the piano for HOURS! I loved that more than watching tv or playing outside when I was at her house! For Mattie's icing you basically just boil sugar, evaporated Milk and butter in a pan and you get this almost caramel taste. I say almost because it's really not caramel but I'm not sure how to describe it. When you pour it on the cake it like sinks in giving you this super moist cake with a touch of icing on top! Mississippi Mud; I just top the cake when it come out of the oven with small marshmallows and then pecans (optional) then top the fudge icing over that!
This cake takes just 20 minutes to make and is oh so good out of the oven but taste great at room temp too!
I know a few people who make this in a cookie sheet. You can but using a 9X13 really makes a nice slice of cake! The cookie sheet version does more of a bar/brownie size.
This is what you will need minus the salt... I just got the salt out by habit ;)
Sift flour, sugar and baking soda
Combine water, butter and cocoa
Bring to boil
Pour over dry ingredients and stir till combined then add buttermilk, eggs and vanilla
Once combined pour into greased and floured 9X13 pan
Place in a 400 degree oven
For Icing; in a pan add butter, milk and cocoa, cook until thickens then add powder sugar, stir, powder sugar begins to melt, add vanilla. I usually start the icing when cake has been in the oven for 10 minutes or so...just fyi
Once you add the powder sugar it just turns into this glossy beautiful fudgy icing
I let the cake cool maybe 2 to 3 minutes then I pour the icing on top
Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake right out of the oven!!
Mom’s Chocolate Cake
(Texas
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…
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