Old Fashioned Chocolate Sheet Cake
Old Fashioned Chocolate Sheet Cake is the best you've ever tasted...straight from Beryl's kitchen! It's dense, luscious, and topped with decadent chocolate icing that will melt in your mouth.
Servings: 12
Calories: 540kcal
Ingredients
CHOCOLATE CAKE
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups self-rising flour
- 4 Tablespoons cocoa
- 1 stick butter
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup water
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup buttermilk
CHOCOLATE ICING
- 1 stick butter
- 3 Tablespoons cocoa
- 4 Tablespoons milk
- 1 pound box powdered sugar 4 cups
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
CHOCOLATE CAKE
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a mixing bowl, add sugar, flour and cocoa. Stir and set aside.
- Boil butter, oil and water in a saucepan for 1 minute. Pour contents into dry ingredients in mixing bowl. Blend with a mixer on medium speed for 1 minute.
- In a separate bowl, whisk eggs and buttermilk together. Pour into contents in mixing bowl.
- Mix batter for 1 minute on medium speed until combined.
- Pour batter into a 13 X 9 inch greased and floured pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.
CHOCOLATE ICING
- In a saucepan, mix melted butter, cocoa and milk together. Boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat.
- Add powdered sugar and vanilla. Blend with a mixer on medium speed until creamy and smooth.
- If icing is too thick, add tiny amounts of milk until icing is shiny.
- Taste icing. If it is grainy, blend with a mixer on high speed until smooth.
- Pour icing over hot cake, starting at edges and working towards middle until cake is completely covered.
- Cool for 30 minutes before serving.
Notes
- Use a mixer to make the icing or it will not set up properly.
- Special thanks to my friend, JoAnn, for sharing her mother's recipe with me! It's the best cake I've ever tasted!
Nutrition
Calories: 540kcal | Carbohydrates: 89g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Sodium: 27mg | Potassium: 97mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 71g | Calcium: 29mg | Iron: 1mg