Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, denver chocolate sheet cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite. No, despite what you think, this is not a Texas sheet cake. It's a Denver chocolate sheet cake and the recipe for it first appeared in a Denver Junior League Cookbook.
Denver Chocolate Sheet Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Denver Chocolate Sheet Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook denver chocolate sheet cake using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Denver Chocolate Sheet Cake:
- Get 16 Tbsp. unsalted butter in 16 pieces
- Take 1 Tbsp. Butter to grease pan
- Get 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- Make ready 2 cups sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp baking soda
- Take 1/4 tsp salt
- Take 1/4 cup cocoa
- Make ready 1/2 cup buttermilk
- Take 2 eggs lightly beatened
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla
- Make ready 1 1/2 cups water
- Prepare For the frosting
- Make ready 8 Tbsp unsalted butter in 8 pieces
- Get 1 \4 cup cocoa
- Make ready 6 Tbsp buttermilk
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 pound confectioners sugar
- Get 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
All you need are basic ingredients. Very basic ingredients—perfect for us Pioneer Women who live out in the country and nowhere near dutch processed cocoa, Madagascar vanilla extract, or creme. We apologies in advance for using the 'M' word in this video. but the cake sure is moist! If you've ever suffered from dry cake that either you've baked.
Steps to make Denver Chocolate Sheet Cake:
- For cake : Place oven rake in middle position. preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 x 13 inch sheet pan. Combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Whisk well.
- Combine butter, cocoa and 1 1/2 cups water in a medium sauce pan over medium-low heat. Whisk frequently until butter has melted and mixture is smooth, glossy and bubbling around the edges. Remove from heat.
- Fold cocoa mixture into dry ingredients until combined. Stir in buttermilk, eggs and vanilla. pour batter into greased and floured pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely on a oven rack.
- For frosting : Combine butter, cocoa and buttermilk in a small saucepan over medium low heat. Whisk until butter has melted and mixture is smooth and bubbling around edges. Remove from heat and transfer to a standing mixer bowl
- Mix on low speed, add vanilla, salt, sugar and nuts if using. Pour warm frosting over top of cake and smooth with a spatula. Allow frosting to become firm before slicing.
No fussing over the crucial creaming step that is so important to butter cakes. Bring this Scotch chocolate sheet cake to your next potluck or buffet party, and prepare for compliments! The cake has a creamy, nicely-spiced flavor, and the included Texas sheet cake is a moist chocolate cake with buttermilk added to the batter, for tangy flavor and moistness. This chocolate cake has a simple chocolate icing that is perfect for feeding (and pleasing!) a crowd. Chocolate sheet cake will revolutionize your celebration cakes — decadent enough to rival layered birthday cakes, yet simple and easy enough for celebrating that B+ in algebra.
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