Community Pick
White Texas Sheet Cake
photo by Dine Dish
- Ready In:
- 57mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
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16-20
ingredients
- 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine
- 1 cup water
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1⁄2 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
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Frosting
- 1⁄2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
- 1⁄4 cup milk
- 4 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
directions
- In a large saucepan, bring butter and water to a boil.
- Remove from the heat; stir in flour, sugar, eggs, sour cream, almond extract, salt and baking soda until smooth.
- Pour into a greased 15x10 inch baking pan.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 20-22 minutes or until cake is golden brown and tests done.
- Cool for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, for frosting, combine butter and milk in a saucepan; Bring to a boil; remove from heat; add sugar and extract and mix well.
- Stir in walnuts; spread over warm cake.
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Reviews
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This is an incredible cake! I made a few changes after making this very popular cake 3 times in 2 weeks, and the changes made it even better. I added an extra half cup of flour, reduced the sugar by a half cup, and added a teaspoon of baking powder. These changes make the cake lighter without loosing any taste.
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60 odd good reviews can't be wrong. I doubled the recipe and made a big double decker cake. As everyone else said, I have never made a cake that way, but it absolutely works and here we are 3 days later and it's still as moist as the day it was baked, better even. I love the almond flavour. I had some troubles icing it, I don't know if the cake was still too warm or not. I think next time I'll just make sure both the icing and the cake are at room temp. I followed the advice in someone elses's review and added orange zest to the cake - superb, and o.j. to the icing. I also added an extra 1/2 cup of flour and some baking powder as was suggested by a reviewer. This is a breeze to whip up - just watch your oven, mine was quite burnt around the edges with the oven at 375. But I cut those off and had a nice rectangular cake. I'm sure this will be a regular birthday party offering. Thanks!
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Tweaks
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This is the BEST cake! I have made this many times following the instructions as written. However, this Christmas season I have made it twice for potlucks. I replaced the almond flavoring with peppermint extract and have replaced the nuts with crushed candy canes. After crushing the candy canes I took the larger pieces and mixed that in the frosting. The remainding "dust" I just sprinkled over the top of the frosting. It was very pretty, gave it a little sparkle.
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This cake came out so well, that my friend wants me to make her son's wedding cake using this recipe. <br/><br/>I made a couple of changes though to cut the sugar factor. I made a topping out of real whipped cream instead of frosting with 1-2 tbs of sugar and 1tbs of vanilla. I then covered it in coconut. On the side I made a beautiful fresh peach strawberry compote using water, a little corn starch, and very little sugar. It was tasty!
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