Today on The Stay At Home Chef
I'm showing you how to make The Most Amazing Texas Sheet Cake.
I've taken my super famous recipe for the most amazing chocolate cake
and turned it into a texas sheet cake delight.
You are going to love it.
To start you'll want to preheat an oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
and lightly grease a 13x18 inch sheet pan.
The cake batter is all made in one large mixing bowl.
It starts with 2 cups of all purpose flour, followed by 2 cups of sugar,
3/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder, 2 teaspoons of baking soda,
and 1 teaspoon of salt, and you'll want to whisk this all together.
I don't recommend using Dutch processed cocoa for this,
you want to stick with the regular unsweetened kind.
Then pour in 1 cup of buttermilk,
and you definitely want to use buttermilk when making a Texas style sheet cake.
You'll also need 1 cup of warm water, 1/3 cup of vegetable oil,
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, and then we'll crack in 2 large eggs.
And then we'll whisk this together until the batter is nice and smooth,
which will take a few minutes.
Make sure you scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl,
so everything gets mixed in.
Then we're gonna pour this directly into our sheet pan.
The batter should spread out on its own and cover the entire bottom of the pan.
Then we're gonna bake this in a 350 degree oven for 20-25 minutes,
until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Remove your cake from the oven and let it cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes
before you start making your frosting.
Texas sheet cake is all about that cooked ganache like frosting on top.
Melt 1/2 cup of salted butter in a saucepan over low heat.
Once the butter is melted add in 1/3 cup of cocoa powder,
and you want to whisk this in until it's all dissolved into that butter,
which happens really quick you can see.
And then pour in 1/3 cup buttermilk,
and you're gonna bring this mixture just barely to a simmer over medium to medium-high heat.
You want to whisk it the entire time it's over the heat.
Once it just starts to simmer,
you'll want to turn the heat off and pour in 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract,
and then slowly add in 3 cups of powdered sugar,
and whisk in between additions.
You'll end up with a nice thick but pourable frosting.
Just pour the frosting right over the cake.
The frosting is warm, the cake is still warm,
and the frosting will just spread right over the top.
You can use a rubber spatula to spread the frosting out to the edges.
Of course nuts are always optional, but for a true texas sheet cake,
you've gotta have either pecans or walnuts.
And that's it.
Let the cake cool completely before slicing.
You are ready to eat.
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