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Wild Warren’s Texas Sheet Cake

Course: Cakes
1st Gen Author: Fred Lybbert

Ingredients

Sift together:

  • 2 cup white sugar
  • 2 cup flour
  • ½ tsp salt

Melt in a sauce pan:

  • 1 cup butter

Add:

  • 1 cup water
  • 4 Tbsp cocoa

Then add:

  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 1 tsp baking soda dissolve this in the buttermilk
  • ½ cup buttermilk
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • flour mixture

Frosting:

  • ½ cup butter melted
  • 4 heaping Tbsp cocoa
  • ⅓ cup milk
  • 1 lb powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • ½ cup chopped pecans (optional)

Instructions

  • Grease a 11 x 17 jelly roll pan (can also use a 9×13 pan, but you may die of sugar shock-there's something to be said for spreading the love in this recipe).
  • Pour cake batter into a greased and floured jelly roll pan.
  • Bake at 350° for 25-30 min. While cake is baking, prepare the icing.

Frosting:

  • Melt butter then add the remaining ingredients.
  • Put icing on cake while both are still warm.

Notes

i worked with Wild Warren when we lived in Ft. Worth TX. He used to bring this into work occasionally. Delicious!!