Easy Texas Sheet Cake Recipe

Hi I'm John Canell and today in the preppy kitchen we're going to make a delicious delicious Texas pie so let's get started first set the oven to 350 and now in a medium pot I'm adding a cup of water a cup of butter 8 ounces and a quarter cup cocoa powder, you can use dutch or regular processing, it's really up to you. Oh, I'll put this over medium heat and bring it to a boil while that happens, we'll get the rest of the

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. together now in a large bowl I'm adding two cups of flour which is 240 grams two cups of granulated sugar which is 400 grams this has come to a boil.

I'm taking it off the heat right now to puff things up a teaspoon of baking soda, there you have it, I also want half a teaspoon of salt to give it a little bit of contrast, grab a whisk, we're going to whisk everything together so it's nice and combined and you can remove any lump, this

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is so good and it's so quick and

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, the key is to work fast because you're going to make a delicious boiled chocolate pecan glaze and pour it over your hot cake. It will be amazing, okay, mix it in a smaller bowl.

I want half a cup or 120 grams of sour cream for the sour cream. I'm adding two whole eggs at room temperature one and two shelled beat this together if you have the best story of why this is called text

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cake let me know I was looking into it and clearly popular in Texas it was probably called that in Texas by a Texan, but the cake itself appears to be a variation of a German sweet chocolate cake, not the company's country, so the German chocolate cake was made by the German chocolate company, which it popularized. They have those green packets in the supermarket.

This is already the only thing I didn't do was take my half tray and just spread it with butter. You can use baking spray if you want, but this only helps when you take out the pieces, but you serve it on the tray, so don't worry about it being perfect, it's just a kind of tub, grease it a little now I'm going to add the mixture of sour cream to the flour mixture, you'll probably want to use an electric mixer, but today I want to use my hands and a whisk No, I changed my mind. I'm going to use the electric hand mixer.

I've done it before it's a mistake. It's much easier with just a small machine to help you, so let's mix it up. This will become quite a thick batter, but don't forget that we have our butter, water and hot chocolate mixture waiting to be added. Once you start, you can increase to medium speed and you just want this to come together nicely like this. so much easier oh my gosh now I'm going to add my hot chocolate mixture to the batter while I'm mixing on low don't you dare splash me work this together until it's nice and smooth okay I'm just going to switch to putty knife and fold the bottom up because there's a little bit of denser material hanging out there.

If you're wondering why we heat that mixture, it's because that combination of butter and hot water really helps the cocoa powder bloom and then it just gives you an intense chocolate flavor, it's amazing, they do similar things with brownies. , if you remember, okay, this is smooth and delicious, oh my goodness, look at that, I'm going to pour this right onto my baking

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, now don't you. you really have to smooth this dough out, you're just going to let it go to the corner and go back there, come on, it actually levels out quite easily on its own, so just give it a little push, it's done. put in the oven 350 for 15 maybe 18 minutes or until a skewer comes out in the middle with just a couple of crumbs in the meantime we're going to make the glaze because they have to be made together at the same time, can you?

Go now for this frosting, it's so good and so

easy

. We're going to add half a cup plus two tablespoons of unsalted butter to a medium skillet or pot and that's two tablespoons along with half a cup of whole milk. mils a quarter cup of cocoa powder I think you should take half a cup of cocoa powder a quarter cup of cocoa powder a quarter cup of cocoa powder 25 grams this is also going to boil like before so put it on heat medium and then while it's heating up I'm going to chop my nuts, there you have it and I stir it from time to time, but I'm also going to chop my nuts.

I want about a cup of finely chopped walnuts, bonus points if you toast them, hit this Cutting this cake is like it's more than moist, it's clearly soaked like this situation of butter, cocoa powder, milk powder and it was already tender to start so once you have all this creamy stuff you're going to want a little bit of texture and that will come from the chopped nuts if you don't really like nuts leave them out or use walnuts or hazelnuts or you can leave them out. What I'm trying to say is that it's optional, okay, my nuts are chopped.

I hear a soft simmer in the background and if you're I'm wondering, oh my gosh, that frosting surely doesn't have sugar in it, don't worry, we'll get some sugar, let's add it and this came to a boil and I want to tell you my stove is so hot. It's like half the time of almost anything else, so if the mixture heats up quickly and is boiling, just take it off the heat and you can heat it again towards the end, right before you do the next step, that's what I do. I'm going to make my cake that just came out of the oven look how beautiful, she is a cake, a little bouncy skewer came out clean, by the way, this is very heavy, pop, that's out there just for a minute, bring your warm mixture of cocoa butter here.

I'm going to add four cups of powdered sugar. This will also help tie things together. You may have noticed that it is separate. You have little puddles of butter. Alright. You're going to beat it. Everything will be fine. You just need the sugar to help bind. together oh look at that one cup already is like 100 better two cups in hmm this reminds me I've had a few requests for um like a boiled milk glaze let me know if you want that I still have it I've been thinking about making a video for this but I'm undecided.

I don't know if people really want that or if it's one or two people last cup and we're just going to blend this together so it's smooth and add those nuts. At this point, we're going to stir them in since our mixture is getting quite filling. By the way, I could eat this by the spoonful and now bring your hot cake back, now you're going to quickly pour all this amazing frosting over your Heat the cake and smooth it out use an offset spatula and gently pull it towards the edges. This is incredible. We will let it cool completely before cutting it because it is very hot now, once it cools it will be ready to cut it and enjoy it.

Wow, I don't know how you can't love this soft and fluffy chocolate cake that has an intense chocolate flavor and that wonderful layer of frosting on top to give you the perfect touch of sweetness with a little crunch. I hope you have the opportunity. to make this

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