Home Cooking! & My Life!!

This is a really simple easy to make Chocolate Sheet cake; I had planned on making it today but just am not quite up to doing that with the pain I’m still in but thought I’d go ahead and share it with you anyway and I do have photo’s of it also for when I made it the last time (G)!!

Now the other wonderful thing with this recipe is of course you can  make it as a sheet cake, nice beautiful round cake, or even better Chocolate cupcakes for your home & family or for the kids at School!!

Buttermilk Chocolate Sheet Cake/ very easy to do!

We’ve used this recipe for so many years in my family, my brothers and I also used to eat this batter “raw” its that darn good!  It always made our Mother freak out but it is so darn good and to this day when I make of course I leave a bit on the bowl so that I can lick it clean..LOL!!

You’ll need;

Mix together in a big bowl;

2 cups sugar

2 cups flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

Bring to a boil in a nice saucepan; that won’t stick;

2 sticks oleo ( we use Bluebonnet) do not use cheapy type brands for this recipe, you will notice a difference.  My family has always USED Blue Bonnet when baking;

4 TBLPS of Hershey’s Cocoa/I make them heaping Tablespoons  of cocoa,

(don’t be stingy)

1 cup water

6-8 Tablespoons of Buttermilk ( we use this substitute) in ours and not the actual buttermilk our version is 1 cup milk with 1 TBLSP of white vinegar, mix this up and its PERFECT!!!

Be sure to refrigerate the remaining as You’ll need some of this again for your icing ok?  Its very very good!

After this mixture of cocoa, water, butter, and substitute butter milk , starts to come to a boil be sure to stir this really good now so it does not scorch in the bottom of your pan;

When it comes to a boil now pour this over your dry ingredients

and beat together with your mixer, next add;

2 eggs,

1 tsp. Vanilla

Beat the mixture well again scrape around all the sides

with your spatula to make sure its all mixed up good;

Now I use a 9×13″ pan for mine most of the time I do spray

my pan with PAM, so it won’t stick or burn;

if you want to make cup cakes great just fill the cups like you

do on other recipes

Bake this at 350 degrees for about 25-30 minutes maybe more

all ovens do not heat up the same, so at the 25 minute mark I’d be checking on this cake as you do NOT want to over bake it;

check it with a toothpick or a knife whatever you have handy

it if comes out clean its done, I like mine a tad “gooey” but that’s just me, not gooey like the batter but not all the way done either

does that make sense ??  (G)!

I love this cake right out of the oven, I always have a big old piece of it like this even before its got icing on it! 

IT’S THAT GOOD!! (TRUST ME)  try a piece eat it while its piping hot!  really really DELICIOUS!

Ummm ( my second piece of chocolate cake) before I got the icing put on it…LOL!  DAMN GOOD!

Once the cake has cooled down, now you are ready to make

your chocolate icing!  This ( to me) and our family is the best

chocolate icing, its all we use on any of our desserts!

Get that pan out again or be sure to wash it up to use again;

You’ll need

1 stick butter( blue bonnet)

4 tblsps of Hershey’s cocoa, (heaping TBLS)

6-8 TBLPS of buttermilk ( or that subsitute ) we mixed up!

you can even add a bit more of this in your icing, it won’t hurt it any, make sure the heat is on as low as you can on your stove

while this heats up; once its all stirred up good and starts to come to a boil again, ( bubbly like)

remove pan from heat, next add your powdered sugar enough

for a good spreading consistency;  You’re going to need at least

a 1 lb of this maybe more, I never measure it I just use as much

powdered sugar until the icing looks right you know?  I rarely

really measure anything, it just has to look right and feel right

and of course taste right as in sweet enough, so keep adding

your powdered sugar until it suits you ok?

then spread your icing out on your cake, if you have extra icing

left over, heck don’t throw it out, put that sweet stuff into a bowl

or container of some sort and you’ve got the best chocolate fix

right at your finger tips when you want CHOCOLATE!!! LOL!!!

grab yourself a teaspoon and get some of that good icing…(G)!

ENJOY IT!!

See??  Miss piggy here ate two pieces of it before I even got icing made and put on here..LOL!

There you have it, best darn versatile recipe you’ll need;

good luck and I hope you enjoy it!

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