Texas sheet cake recipe

Recipe for Texas sheet cake in our easy tex mex recipes collection.

Recipe ingredients

• Cake:
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup cocoa
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup butter, 1 stick, melted
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 cup canola or other vegetable oil
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Frosting:
  • 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk
  • 1/4 cup cocoa
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 pound confectioner sugar, sifted, about 4 cups
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup chopped pecans

How to make Texas sheet cake

• Cake:
  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  • Grease and flour a 13 x 9 x 2 inch baking pan.
  • Sift together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda and cinnamon. Set aside.
  • Stir together the remaining ingredients.
  • Mix the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients, stirring until you have a smooth, rather thin batter.
  • Pour into your prepared pan, and bake at 400 degrees F for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  • While the cake is baking, prepare the frosting.
• Frosting:
  • Mix the milk and cocoa in a heavy saucepan. Stir.
  • Add the butter and over medium heat, stir until the butter melts.
  • Remove from heat and gradually stir in the sugar and vanilla until smooth.
  • Add the pecans.
• When the cake is just out of the oven, spread the frosting evenly on the hot cake.

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