Chocolate Sheet Cake (Lady's)
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 4 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 8 tablespoons butter (melted)
- 1 cup water
- 1⁄2 cup shortening (melted)
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda (scant)
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
-
Icing
- 8 tablespoons butter
- 4 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 6 tablespoons evaporated milk
- 1 (16 ounce) box powdered sugar (sifted)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- In pot on stove combine and bring to a boil 1st 4 ingredients.
- Pour into mixing bowl with sugar and flour.
- Mix.
- Add buttermilk, soda, vanilla, and cinnamon.
- Bake for 25 minutes in a 10X14" pan. (Check center of cake with a toothpick for doneness; it's all right for a few moist crumbs to stick to the toothpick.).
- While cake is baking, make frosting:.
- In pot on stove combine and bring to a boil butter, cocoa, and evaporated milk.
- Pour into mixing bowl with powdered sugar.
- Mix.
- Add vanilla. Icing will be very thick; you may thin it with a few drops of evaporated milk if desired, but keep it thick.
- Ice cake as soon as it comes out of the oven.
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