Grandma Stoddard's Texas Sheet Cake

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup water
• 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup butter
• 4 tablespoons cocoa
• 6 tablespoons milk
• 1 lb powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup pecans, chopped

Recipe

• 1 for cake:.
• 2 grease 10x15x2 pan (jelly roll pan).
• 3 preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• 4 in a medium saucepan, bring to a boil: butter, water and cocoa. remove from heat and set aside.
• 5 in a medium mixing bowl, sift together: sugar, flour and salt.
• 6 in a seperate bowl, beat together: eggs, buttermilk (or sour cream), vinegar, vanilla and baking soda.
• 7 pour both the egg/milk mixture and the warm chocolate mixture into the flour mixture. stir until well mixed.
• 8 pour warm batter into greased pan.
• 9 bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes.
• 10 while cake is baking, prepare frosting.
• 11 for frosting:.
• 12 bring to a boil: butter, cocoa and milk.
• 13 add: powdered sugar, vanilla and nuts.
• 14 spread on cake immediately after removing cake from oven. must be hot spread easily.