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Pioneer Woman’s Chocolate Sheet Cake

This is ABSOLUTELY the BEST Chocolate Sheet Cake EVER! I get so many requests for this recipe. It’s one of the most popular recipes I’ve ever posted!

pioneer woman's chocolate sheet cake

This is one of those recipes your Mom probably made for years and you grew up eating! Not everyone makes cakes from scratch anymore. Everyone wants a short cut. This is by far one of the best from scratch recipes you will make.

Everyone loves this when I make it! So chocolatey sand moist, it is heaven! This recipe is sheet cake DONE RIGHT! Everyone will love you for making this, it’s so delicious!

Perfect to take anywhere. This will disappear so fast!

 

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pioneer woman's chocolate sheet cake

Pioneer Woman's Chocolate Sheet Cake

This is the BEST Chocolate Sheet Cake EVER! I get so many requests for this recipe. It’s one of the most popular recipes I’ve ever posted!
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Ingredients
  

FOR THE CAKE:

  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 4 Tablespoons cocoa
  • 2 sticks butter
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 2 whole eggs beaten
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

FOR THE FROSTING:

  • 1/2 cup pecans finely chopped
  • 1 3/4 stick butter
  • 4 Tablespoons cocoa heaping
  • 6 Tablespoons milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 pound powdered sugar minus 1/2 Cup

Instructions
 

  • In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, and salt.
  • In a saucepan, melt butter. Add cocoa. Stir together.
  • Add boiling water, allow mixture to boil for 30 seconds, then turn off heat.
  • Pour over flour mixture, and stir lightly to cool.
  • In a measuring cup, pour the buttermilk and add beaten eggs, baking soda, and vanilla.
  • Stir buttermilk mixture into butter/chocolate mixture.
  • Pour into sheet cake pan (15x10) and bake at 350-degrees for 20 minutes.
  • While cake is baking, make the icing.
  • Chop pecans finely.
  • Melt butter in a saucepan.
  • Add cocoa, stir to combine, then turn off heat. Add the milk, vanilla, and powdered sugar, stir together.
  • Add the pecans, stir together, and pour over warm cake.
  • Cut into squares, eat and enjoy!
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    • If you have regular milk you can make buttermilk, all you need to do is add a tablespoon of vinegar of lemon juice

  7. I have been making this cake for thirty years. It is my children’s favorite birthday cake. I increased the ingredients by half and bake it in an 8 inch by 12 inch pan that is about 2.5 inches deep for 50 to 60 minutes. It is thicker but we love it this way.

  8. Texas Chocolate Cookie Sheet Cake has cinnamon in the cake. It gives it a deeper flavor, maybe the latino influence. Makes a lot of servings and never a crumb left.

    • No to the Nestle Quick (it’s a chocolate milk powdered drink mix, but yes to the Unsweetened cocoa – I always use Hershey’s.

  11. i cant get the recipe all I get are responses from people.i have wasted a lot of paper trying to get the recipe.

  12. I, too, have made this for years. We call it Texas sheet cake and butter is a MUST. Do NOT substitute margarine. It makes a big difference in flavor. Call it whatever….it’s awesome.

  13. I’m going to call it Kansas Sheet Cake………………been making it for years.

  14. A Texas Sheet Cake has cinnamon in it!
    This is a Chocolate Sheet Cake. Both are yummy!

      • Yes it will fit a 13 x 9 inch pan. I’ve making this same exact cake for over 60 years( I am now 83), always use the 13x 9 inch glass dish.

      • They are talking about a jelly roll pan. It us shallow and larger than a 9×13. It can be done in a 9×13 but that makes the cake part thicker