Food, Decor, Kids: Texas Sheet Cake Brownies

Chocolate Sheet Cake, Texas Sheet Cake, Sheet Cake Brownies and Texas Sheet Cake Brownies

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What do all these recipes have in common? Plenty, as they are all the same basic recipe just called by these different names! (I call it Texas Sheet Cake Brownies.)

Depending on where you first tasted it and scrambled to write down the recipe, it's been called all of these things. It's either a "cake like" Brownie, or a "brownie like" Cake, or alternately, half Fudge, half Cake, and all pure Chocolate indulgence...

My grandmothers both made this recipe, and all the women in my family on both sides do too. So the recipe is not new, but it is still one of the easiest, FASTEST, and most delicious Chocolate cakes you could ever make, and there are no artificial ingredients added, so that means it's healthy, right?

We're all chocoholics in my family, so we use the Chocolate icing for this recipe and all other cakes too, but some people actually use Vanilla icing or powdered Sugar as a topping. Gasp, having trouble imagining the idea of icing without Chocolate...

Anyway, you probably have everything you need to make this cake right now...and if you don't, from now on keep the simple ingredients around and you will always have a quick gourmet dessert in a hurry whenever you need it. I can get this cake done in 40 minutes start to finish...

It's delicious warm or chilled. Add Vanilla Ice Cream as a topping and watch people swoon.

Enjoy!

Chocolate:

It isn't just for Breakfast anymore.

Cooking with Chocolate
There is Almost Enough Chocolate Here for Me

Ingredients

2 cups sifted Flour
2 cups Sugar
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1 cup Butter
1 cup Water
1/4 cup Cocoa
2 beaten Eggs
1 tsp. Vanilla
1/2 cup Sour Cream or Buttermilk

Directions

Heat Oven to 400 degrees. Butter and dust with Flour a shallow cake pan at least 9 x 13.

Sift Flour, Sugar, Soda and Cinnamon in mixing bowl. In saucepan, bring Water, Butter, and Cocoa to a rapid boil and pour over the dry ingredients. Save the pan for the icing. Stir well and add the Eggs, Vanilla, and Sour Cream. Mix well again.

Pour into cake pan and bake for 20 minutes.

As soon as you put the cake in the oven, start the yummy Chocolate icing so it will be ready when the cake is done.

Yummy Chocolate Icing Recipe

1/2 cup Butter
1/4 cup Cocoa
6 tablespoons Milk
1 box powdered Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla

Melt the Butter, Cocoa and Milk over a low heat. Remove from heat and add the Sugar and Vanilla. Mix well and spread on the cake while it is still hot.