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Texas Sheet Cake

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Texas Sheet Cake

A giant chocolate sheet cake, poured with a warm fudgy pecan frosting while still hot straight from the oven.

Total time
40 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
25 min
Difficulty
easy
Cuisine
American
comfort

Ingredients

2 cupsall-purpose flour
2 cupssugar
½ tspsalt
1 tspbaking soda
1 cupbutter
1 cupwater
4 tbspcocoa powder
½ cupbuttermilk
2eggs
1 tspvanilla
FROSTING: ½ cup butter, 4 tbsp cocoa, 6 tbsp milk, 4 cups powdered sugar, 1 cup pecans

Instructions

1

Bring butter, water, cocoa to boil; pour over flour, sugar, salt, baking soda.

2

Beat in buttermilk, eggs, vanilla.

3

Bake in greased sheet pan at 350°F for 20 min.

4

Make frosting: boil butter, cocoa, milk; beat in powdered sugar and pecans.

5

Pour hot frosting over hot cake; spread.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories
1104
Protein
13.5g
Fat
50.5g
Carbs
155.9g
Fiber
4.4g
Sodium
923mg

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