Texas Sheet Cake

Texas Sheet Cake 🥰😍

Ingredients :

Cake:

1 cup butter
1 cup water
¼ cup cocoa
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
⅛ teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
Icing (recipe below)
Icing:
½ cup butter
¼ cup cocoa
¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons milk
1 box (1 pound) confectioners’ sugar (sift it first to remove lumps – otherwise icing remains lumpy)
½ teaspoon vanilla
Chopped Pecans (optional)

How to make it :

For the cake:

-In a saucepan, combine the butter, water and cocoa over med. heat until the butter melts. Don’t let it cook too long.
-In a separate bowl, combine the sugar, flour, salt, eggs, and baking soda.
-Add the butter mixture to the dry ingredients. Careful, it’s hot.
-Add the sour cream and vanilla and mix well.
-Pour into a sheet cake pan or jelly roll pan.
-Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
For the icing:
-In a saucepan, combine the butter, cocoa and milk over medium heat and bring to a boil.
-Immediately remove from heat and combine with confectioners sugar and vanilla.
-Mix well with a mixer to remove lumps.
-Spread over the sheet cake while it is STILL hot.