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Texas sheet cake

Name: Texas sheet cake
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cups maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 2 cups for cake about 3 1/2 cups powdered for icing sugar; 1 cup divided butter; 1/2 cup divided cocoa powder (unsweetened cocoa powder); 1 cup water; 1/2 cup buttermilk; 2 egg; 1 tsp baking soda (bicarb soda, bicarbonate of soda); 2 tsp divided vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract); 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder; a pinch salt; 6 tbsp for icing milk; 1 cup chopped pecans

A chocolate cake as big as Texas, frosted while hot so it melts into fudge. Feeds the whole street.

50 minTime

5 gProtein each

mildSpice

Big as Texas2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayA thin buttermilk chocolate cake with warm pecan fudge icing.

The original

557kcalsame

5 gproteinsame

3 gfibresame

50minutessame

Texas sheet cake.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)2 cups

Sugar2 cups for cake, about 3 1/2 cups powdered for icing

Butter1 cup, divided

Cocoa powder (unsweetened cocoa powder)½ cup, divided

Water1 cup

Buttermilk½ cup

Egg2

Baking soda (bicarb soda, bicarbonate of soda)1 tsp

Vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract)2 tsp, divided

Cinnamon powder½ tsp

Salta pinch

Milk6 tbsp, for icing

Pecans1 cup, chopped

Method

5 steps

1Heat the oven to 180°C and grease a large sheet pan, about 25 x 38 cm.
2Bring half the butter, half the cocoa and the water to a boil, then whisk into the flour, 2 cups sugar, soda, cinnamon and salt.
3Whisk in buttermilk, eggs and half the vanilla. Pour into the pan and bake 18 to 20 minutes.
4Five minutes before the cake is done, boil the remaining butter, cocoa and milk, then whisk in the powdered sugar, vanilla and pecans.
5Pour the icing over the hot cake and spread at once. Cool before cutting.

Serve it like this

Cut into squares straight from the pan and serve at room temperature, with cold milk or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Texas

Texas sheet cake

A chocolate cake as big as Texas, frosted while hot so it melts into fudge. Feeds the whole street.

50 minTime

5 gProtein each

mildSpice

Big as Texas2 chapters · 1 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayA thin buttermilk chocolate cake with warm pecan fudge icing.

The original

557kcalsame

5 gproteinsame

3 gfibresame

50minutessame

Texas sheet cake.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)2 cups

Sugar2 cups for cake, about 3 1/2 cups powdered for icing

Butter1 cup, divided

Cocoa powder (unsweetened cocoa powder)½ cup, divided

Water1 cup

Buttermilk½ cup

Egg2

Baking soda (bicarb soda, bicarbonate of soda)1 tsp

Vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract)2 tsp, divided

Cinnamon powder½ tsp

Salta pinch

Milk6 tbsp, for icing

Pecans1 cup, chopped

Method

5 steps

1Heat the oven to 180°C and grease a large sheet pan, about 25 x 38 cm.
2Bring half the butter, half the cocoa and the water to a boil, then whisk into the flour, 2 cups sugar, soda, cinnamon and salt.
3Whisk in buttermilk, eggs and half the vanilla. Pour into the pan and bake 18 to 20 minutes.
4Five minutes before the cake is done, boil the remaining butter, cocoa and milk, then whisk in the powdered sugar, vanilla and pecans.
5Pour the icing over the hot cake and spread at once. Cool before cutting.

Serve it like this

Cut into squares straight from the pan and serve at room temperature, with cold milk or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Texas sheet cake

Make it your way

Ingredients

Method

Texas sheet cake

Make it your way

Ingredients

Method

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