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Texas Sheet Cake Recipe

Texas Sheet Cake Recipe

For all my cake lovers, you gotta try out this recipe for your next party! This Texas sheet cake recipe never disappoints!

In our family Texas Sheet Cake is a staple. It is made more than boxed brownies and is consumed faster than any cookie. My absolute favorite is a slice of Texas Sheet Cake with a scoop of homemade peppermint ice cream! (Oh great my mouth is watering…) I know I could go on and on telling different stories about this dessert but all you need to know is that it is made on the stove top, is very easy, and is amazing. Best thing you can bring to any sort of “pot luck” event.  Just trust me! (And the picture below explains why I can only take pictures while my kids are at school or sleeping. Remington decided to just come right up and take a bite out of one of the brownies as I was taking pictures! Good thing he is cute!)

How to make Texas Sheet Cake

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 Tablespoons cocoa
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup margarine (butter will work fine too)
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups flour, shifted
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. In a saucepan, mix water, oil, margarine, and cocoa.

2. Bring to a boil and watch as the Cocoa dissolve, then remove from heat.

3. Add sugar, eggs, and flour and beat well.

4. Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk. Then pour the mixture and the vanilla into the batter. Mix well!

5. Grab a 10×17 cookie sheet and grease well and then pour batter evenly in and bake for 20 minutes.

6. Rinse out the saucepan and then return it to the stove and make the frosting. Then serve and enjoy once finished!
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. In a saucepan, mix water, oil, margarine, and cocoa. Bring to a boil. Cocoa should dissolve. Remove from heat. Add sugar, eggs, and flour. Beat well. Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk. Then pour the mixture and the vanilla into the batter. Mix very well. (If there is lumps from the flour put in the blender for a few minutes) Grab a 10×17 cookie sheet and grease well and then pour batter evenly in. Bake for 20 minutes.  (you can add 1/3 cup chopped nuts if you want also) Rinse out the saucepan and then return it to the stove and make the frosting.

How to make the Frosting:

Ingredients:

  • 1 pound powdered sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup cocoa
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions:

  1. Put all ingredients (except the vanilla) in the saucepan.
  2. Stir well over medium heat until everything dissolves.
  3. Remove from heat and add vanilla.
  4. Stir well and then frost while warm.
Put all ingredients (except the vanilla) in the saucepan. Stir well over medium heat until everything dissolves. Remove from heat and add vanilla. Stir well and then frost while warm.
5 from 4 votes
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Texas Sheet Cake

Servings 8 people

Ingredients

  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 Tbsp cocoa
  • 1/2 cup margarine
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Frosting

  • 1 lb powdered sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup cocoa
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. In a saucepan, mix water, oil, margarine, and cocoa. Bring to a boil. Cocoa should dissolve. Remove from heat. Add sugar, eggs, and flour. Beat well. Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk. Then pour the mixture and the vanilla into the batter. Mix very well. (If there is lumps from the flour put in the blender for a few minutes) Grab a 10x17 cookie sheet and grease well and then pour batter evenly in. Bake for 20 minutes.  (you can add 1/3 cup chopped nuts if you want also) Rinse out the saucepan and then return it to the stove and make the frosting.

frosting

  1. Put all ingredients (except the vanilla) in the saucepan. Stir well over medium heat until everything dissolves. Remove from heat and add vanilla. Stir well and then frost while warm. 

Do you love this recipe? For more delicious dessert recipes like this, try out some of these:
  1. Peanut Butter Cookies
  2. Copycat Mexican Fried Ice Cream
  3. Lemon Bars
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8 Comments

  1. 5 stars
    Oh my goodness. I clicked on the stars so I could read what I thought were 4 reviews—often it’s hyperlinked—but apparently I just gave your recipe 2 stars (!!!) even though I’ve never made it and it looks delicious. So now, the overall rating went down. Sorry, everybody! ???? #usererror

  2. 5 stars
    Amazingly easy to throw together…and delicious!! I Have made this cake several times now, always turns out perfect and everyone loves it.

  3. 5 stars
    OMG, so delicious! I’m Canadian and have seen lots of Texas sheet cake recipes and I couldn’t understand the appeal, I assumed being so thin they would be dry but this was AMAZING! Yum, thank you so much, this will be a go-to recipe for me!

  4. 5 stars
    LOVE! Made a double batch to share with a large group of friends celebrating birthdays. Delicious! <3