Remembering Texas
by Kay
I lived in Texas while working on my doctorate. I don’t remember Texas sheet cake. I remember Aggie bonfires, the next door neighbor as beautiful as an Egyptian queen, and the kindergarten teacher in the class where I watched kids write.
I also remember finding a scorpion in the apartment once, fire ants, and getting my first speeding ticket. I remember walking across campus on a day so hot I thought I’d catch fire. Texas sheet cake would be a better memory than any of those.
Cooking Light just named Texas sheet cake one of the best chocolate recipes of all time in their 25th anniversary issue. I made it today. It’s memorable.
Texas Sheet Cake (adapted from Cooking Light)
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa, divided
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla, divided
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/4 cup milk
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease a 15×10 jelly roll pan and dust it with flour.
- Stir together flour, sugar, soda, cinnamon, and salt.
- Combine water, butter, and cocoa in a saucepan; bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Pour into the flour mixture. Beat with a mixer at medium until well blended.
- Add buttermilk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and eggs. Beat well.
- Pour batter into the prepared pan. Baked at 375 degrees for 17 minutes or until a wooden pick comes out clean. Place on a wire rack.
- Combine 1/2 cup butter, milk, and 1/4 cup cocoa in saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Gradually stir in powdered sugar; stir in 2 teaspoons vanilla and the chopped pecans. Spread over hot cake. Cool completely on wire rack.
Kay, you did that cake justice!!!
I hope Cooking Light didn’t take all those luscious calories out of it!!
You have inspired me to dig out my recipe. Thank you!
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Isn’t Texas Sheet Cake awesome? Just a humble one-bowl wonder. It may be my new go-to chocolate fix.
I’ll have to look it up on the internet. Sounds like a good recipe for when we have visitors. – Maureen
The cake looks wonderful. As a Texan, I can only say our state is just designed for speeding tickets even in populated areas like College Station. I’ve been stung twice by scorpions and many ants. So tell me more about the Midwest. Haha!
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