Texas Sheet Cake
Author: A Day in Motherhood
Recipe type: Cake
- 2 cups Flour
- 2 cups Sugar
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 1 cup Butter
- 4 TBS Cocoa Powder
- 1 cup Boiling Water
- ½ cup Buttermilk or ½ cup Milk + 1 tsp Vinegar
- 2 Eggs, beaten
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- Frosting:
- ½ cup Butter, softened
- 1 cup Peanut Butter
- 3 TBS Milk
- 2 cups Powdered Sugar
- Preheat Oven to 350.
- Spray a 15x10 sheet cake pan with nonstick spray.
- Combine flour, sugar, and salt in a large bowl.
- Melt butter over low heat in a medium pan.
- Whisk Cocoa powder into butter until blended
- Add boiling water and raise heat to medium high.
- Bring to a boil, then turn off the heat.
- Add mixture to flour mixture, and stir lightly until well distributed.
- If you don't have buttermilk combine ½ cup milk with vinegar and allow to sit for 5 minutes
- Whisk together buttermilk, eggs, baking soda, and vanilla.
- Add to chocolate mixture and stir briefly to mix.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.
- Allow to cool for at least an hour.
- Cream together the butter and peanut butter.
- Slowly add the sugar. If it gets too thick add a little milk to thin.
- Continue until all of the sugar is mixed in.
- Spread frosting over the top of the cake
Recipe by A Day in Motherhood at https://www.adayinmotherhood.com/texas-sheet-cake/
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