A Recipe From Beth's Kitchen
This is the recipe for my mom's Texas sheet cake - our family's favorite holiday treat. It's simply amazing and it's even better the next day. I'm having my second piece tomorrow for breakfast. Merry Christmas!
Beth's Texas Sheet Cake
Grease a sheet cake pan. Sift:
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
Bring to a boil:
2 sticks butter
1 cup water
4 tbsp. cocoa
Pour over dry mixture and mix in:
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. vanilla
Bake at 400 degrees, 20-25 minutes.
Icing
Heat:
1 stick butter
4 tbsp. cocoa
6 tbsp. milk
Add anywhere from 1/2 to 1 box of powdered sugar to acheive desired consistency (Beth prefers close to 1 box) and 1 cup pecans. Spread on cake while it's hot.
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posted by Amanda @ 10:44 PM
20 Comments
20 Comments:
Great recipe!
brings a smile to my face....I haven't seen the word "oleo" since I cooked with my mom years ago!
Okay, I just had to make a correction because my mom nearly fainted when she saw that I printed it exactly from the 25 year old recipe with oleo instead of butter. She ALWAYS uses real butter!
I was trying to figure out if that was butter! I plan on trying it for New Years dinner. Love the website, its fun to be able to talk with you all in a personal way!
Love,
Jenny
Ok I'm not the best cook, so I have a couple of questions...
Soda like coke or baking soda
flour, all purpose or self rising?
Thank you!
Ok, I bought all the ingredients to make the cake and I am going to make it after church this Sunday. I love to bake and Amanda I think if it is half way decent I may have to serve it for breakfast on New Years Day!
To Jenny who wrote about soda or coke. Don't feel bad, I thougt it was cola until my friend told me different. lol!
Thank you Beth for the recipe!
My husband came in the kitchen as I was getting the ingredient's together, and he noticed it was on computer paper, and he asked "where did you get the recipe?"
When I said it's Beth Moore's he looked at me like I was crazy and goes, "she has a cook book now?"
He is a little scared, especially when he realized there is no cake mix in a box involved! It's in the oven now, so I'm expecting it to be wonderful!
Beth and Amanda,
I made the cake on New Years Eve and it was sooo good. You are right, the cake is better the next day. Everyone enjoyed it! Thank you so much for sharing your recipe. We did have it for breakfast the next day. My college football team played their bowl game at 11:00 a.m. on New Years Day and I didn't have time to make breakfast and we enjoyed the cake! My team lost but the cake was great! I hope you and your family had a wonderful and blessed holiday and may God bless you beyond your expectations in 2007!
Love Ya,
Patty
This is one of my favorites, too! The cinnamon makes it! I made it the other night when my girls brought over some friends unexpectedly. They all loved it, too.
Thanks for all the great recipes, I can't wait to get home and try them out. The Thanksgiving post made me feel like I was right there in the mountains with you and enjoying it all. thanks for including us. God has truly blessed us with eachother
There is no dessert in the whole wide world like Texas sheetcake. I really think it should be one of those desserts that does not have any calories, because heaven knows I could eat the whole cake myself in Texas-sized portions.
That's the same recipe my grandmother used - minus cinnamon. I'll have to try that! It's always wonderful. (And the recipe I got from her call for oleo, too.) : )
Thanks for linking back to this recipe! I am a chocoholic and LOVE Texas Sheet Cake. I will be proud to make Beth's recipe!
I think this cake recipe is like my Grandmother's "Betty Cake" She is from Texas so I can almost assure it is. So, I just wanted to let you know that she FREEZES her finished cake and it keeps for a long time, unless my brother and cousin are around then it's gone in 30 minutes. Believe it or not it's so good frozen!!!
My Mom has made this cake as long as I can remember. Her recipe card even calls it Texas Sheet Cake. It is truly one of our most special memories growing up. She has taken it to church dinners, her office, various other places. It is SO good warm!! We used to fight over the icing and hope that she would leave a little in the pan. The spoon was the prize but with four kids we had to take turns each time she made it. It is her most requested item besides my Dad's dressing at Thanksgiving.
Thanks for sharing!
Blessings,
Vickie
Our last class for A Woman's Heart is next Tuesday and I am going to make this cake for the ladies. I so hope we won't act like pigs and eat so much we will nap through the video. The carbs will shoot sky high but I fear we are in for an insulin rush. When I showed it to my mother, she started trying to see where she could substitute here and there to make it less fattening. I told her I was making it just the way it was written. She can experiment later. Do you suggest coffee with it or a glass of milk?
To 46-year-old Beth over in Fort Payne, AL,
You better serve milk with that cake...too much sugar and caffeine (from coffee) might have the sietas living up to their name. Of course, it would a fun time until they fell asleep.
Wish I could come,
47-year-old Beth over in Huntsville, AL
Thanks for the advice. I guess I could serve decaf. That would cut the hyperactivity some.
I need some help here! What size is a sheet cake pan? Haha! I'm a complete failure in the kitchen.
OH MY GOODNESS this is my FAVORITE kind of cake in the world and I haven't had it in years.
Thank you for posting the recipe!
It finally occurred to me to look back to the beginning of this blog! I'm always curious about how things get started and who all was there from the "git-go" as my granddad would say. To my UTTER DELIGHT I found the Texas Sheet Cake!
(My mom always used oleo. I use real butter. She says it's too expensive to use the real thing. I say why bother baking if you don't make it with the best ingredients. What absolutely kills me is that her stuff tastes, well, pretty good. Don't tell her I admitted that.)
This is fun...like looking back on a scrapbook! LPM blog has come a long ways! I'm so grateful you decided to do it, and I'll always be grateful to have found it.
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