Maple Texas Sheet Cake

Submitted by The Family Maker

"This is my version of Texas Sheet Cake. I love maple anything and this is wonderful! It tastes like a maple bar!"

 

• Ready In: 37mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Serves: 16-20

ingredients

• Cake

• 3⁄4 cup butter or 3/4 cup margarine
• 1 cup water
• 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1⁄2 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons maple flavoring

• Icing

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1⁄4 cup milk
• 3 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon maple flavoring
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

directions

1. Boil butter and water in small saucepan.
2. Cream eggs, sugar, and sour cream in mixer or large mixing bowl.
3. In separate bowl combine dry ingredients.
4. Start alternating the butter/water mixture and dry mixture into the egg/sugar mixture.
5. Add maple flavoring and mix well.
6. Pour into greased 15x10 pan.
7. Bake at 350°F for 22 minutes or until tested done in center.
8. While cake is baking, start on Icing.
9. Boil butter and milk in small saucepan. Remove from heat and add sugar and maple flavoring. Mix until smooth.
10. Fold in walnuts.
11. Pour onto cake about 5 minutes after coming out of the oven.
12. Enjoy warm or cold!

Reviews

[Muffin Goddess]

Wow, this was a definite hit! I was a little worried when I saw how thin the cake batter was before baking, but it baked up just fine. I didn't have a jelly-roll pan, so I just used a regular 9x13" pan instead, but I ended up just using the maximum bake time for the recommended pan size. The icing part turned kinda maple-fudgy once it cooled. I left out the walnuts (for a combination of nut allergies/general dislike/intestinal issues had by various taste-testers), but no one missed them one bit. Very sweet and rich - I cut this into pretty small squares, so I ended up with about 28 servings). This will definitely be in my "work snack rotation" recipe pile. Thanks for posting! Made for PAC Fall 07