I found this recipe at The Pioneer Woman Cooks and have been planning to bake it for several months. It looked so lucious that I knew I had to bake it when we had guests over for dinner.
Warning: This recipe uses butter, butter, and more butter plus cocoa powder and is lick-your-plate-good!
I used Watkins Baking Cocoa and Watkins Double-Strength Vanilla as ingredients. This cake is simple to make. It bakes in 20 minutes. Mix the frosting while the cake is baking and pour frosting over warm cake.
Pioneer Woman Chocolate Sheet Cake
Combine in a mixing bowl:
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
In a saucepan, melt:
2 sticks butter
Add 4 heaping tablespoons Watkins Baking Cocoa. Stir together.
Add 1 cup boiling water, allow mixture to boil for 30 seconds, then turn off heat. Pour over flour mixture, and stir lightly to cool.
In measuring cup, pour 1/2 cup buttermilk.
Add:
2 beaten eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon Watkins Original Double-Strength Vanilla
Stir buttermilk mixture into butter/chocolate mixture. Pour into sheet cake pan and bake at 350-degrees for 20 minutes.
While cake is baking, make icing:
Chop 1/2 cup pecans finely.
Melt 1 3/4 sticks butter in a saucepan.
Add 4 heaping tablespoons Watkins Baking Cocoa, stir to combine, then turn off heat.
Add:
6 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon Watkins Double-Strength Vanilla
1 lb minus 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Stir together.
Add pecans, stir together, and pour over warm cake.
I made the frosting without pecans. It would be yummy with them!
This cake is truly one of the best chocolate cakes I’ve ever eaten!
If you don’t have buttermilk in your fridge you can add powdered buttermilk (use according to package instructions) or pour just under 1/2 cup regular milk into the measuring cup, then add enough regular vinegar to the milk to bring the quantity up to 1/2 cup. Within seconds, it turns into buttermilk and works perfectly.
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