The Yummiest Texas Chocolate Cake Ever

My mom has been making this chocolate cake for over thirty years. My kids have started asking for grandma's Texas Cake instead of birthday cakes. And my sister's kids ask everytime they are going to see grandma, is she bringing Texas cake.

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• chocolate frosting
• chocolate cake
• the frosting on the cake
• pan style
• texas (do I have to say anything else?)

The texas sheet cake ingredients

2 cups White Sugar

2 cups Flour

1 Stick Oleo

1/2 cup shortening

4 tablespoons Cocoa

1 cup water

1/2 cup sour milk

2 eggs

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon vanilla

five easy steps

Step 1 - Sift together the sugar and flour in a large bowl.

Step 2 - Melt the Oleo, Cocoa, Shortening, and water into a sauce pan. Bring to a boil and pour over sugar and flour.

NOTE: Do not wash the sauce pan right away as we will use it for the frosting later.

Step 3 - Add the sour milk, baking soda, eggs, and vanilla to the mixture and stir all together.

Step 4 - Pour into a 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1 greased Jelly Roll Pan. Don't know what a jelly roll pan is, see below.

Step 5 - Bake for 20 minutes in a pre-heated 400 degree oven.

One of the things we have learned making this chocolate cake over the year is that the correct cooking sheet is essential into making the chocolate cake perfect every time.

Below is what is called a Jelly Roll Air Pan. What makes this pan different from other regular cookie sheet type pans is it has two sheets insulated by air to make and even cooking surface.

The frosting is the best part...don't use store bought.

1 stick oleo

4 tablespoons cocoa

6 tablespoons milk

1 tablespoon vanilla

1 box conectioner sugar (about 3 3/4 cups)

Again, don't use chocolate frosting from the store or you'll miss out

Five minutes before taking cake out of the over, using the same saucepan as before:

Step 1 - Melt the oleo

Step 2 - Add the cocoa, milk, vanilla, and confectioner sugar

Step 3 - Beat until smooth

Step 4 - Spreak over hot cake.

Step 5 - Wait five minutes, get a big glass of milk and dig in.