Best Chocolate Sheet Cake
Serves 12
This cake recipe was handed down to me by my mother-in-law. It feeds a good number of people, and she brought it with her to family get together and reunions. She made it often and I do the same. It’s a favorite dessert in our home, there is something satisfying about a piece of chocolate cake with frosting and walnuts on top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. YUM! Give it a try!
INGREDIENTS:
Cake
- 6 tbsp milk
- 3 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup butter
- 3 cups powdered sugar.
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ cup chopped walnuts (Optional)
Frosting
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups sugar*
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup water
- 3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F Grease and flour a 10×15-inch cookie sheet pan.
- Combine flour, sugar, and salt in a mixing bowl.
- Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat. Stir in water and cocoa powder. Bring mixture to a boil then remove from the heat.
- Add to the flour mixture.
- In another bowl, mix eggs, baking soda, buttermilk, and vanilla. Mix well.
- Add egg mixture to the flour and cocoa mixture.
- Blend with a hand mixer till batter is smooth.
- Pour batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes.
- While cake is baking, make the frosting.
FROSTING:
- Mix butter, cocoa powder, and milk in a saucepan.
- Heat over low heat, Do not boil. You don’t want the cocoa powder to burn as it will ruin the taste.
- Remove from heat and add powdered sugar I cup at a time, whisking continuously.
- The resulting frosting will be smooth and shiny.
- Spread frosting over warm cake.
- Sprinkle chopped nuts on top.
- Let it cool. Cut in squares and serve with a scoop of ice cream if desired. ENJOY!
I have substituted sugar with monk fruit sugar and found the results to be equally good. Mostly I will use one cup sugar and one cup monk fruit sugar to help reduce the sugar calories.
Note: You can use sprinkles, chocolate chips or sweetened shredded coconut on top instead of nuts.