Chocolate Sheet Cake (Lady's)

This is my great-grandmother's recipe, whose nickname was Lady. The cake is extremely moist, almost gooey in the center, and the icing is very fudge-like.

• Ready In: 1 hr 10 mins
• Serves: 12
• Yields: 1 cake

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

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. In pot on stove combine and bring to a boil 1st 4 ingredients.
3. Pour into mixing bowl with sugar and flour.
4. Mix.
5. Add buttermilk, soda, vanilla, and cinnamon.
6. 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.).
7. While cake is baking, make frosting:.
8. In pot on stove combine and bring to a boil butter, cocoa, and evaporated milk.
9. Pour into mixing bowl with powdered sugar.
10. Mix.
11. Add vanilla. Icing will be very thick; you may thin it with a few drops of evaporated milk if desired, but keep it thick.
12. Ice cake as soon as it comes out of the oven.