Wild Warren's Texas Sheet Cake
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 9x13 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!!