Texas sheet cake
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Read about sheet cakes and traybakes in the BrightCulinary Book
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- 1 cup water
- 226 g butter
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
Put the water, butter and cocoa powder in a medium pot over medium heat and bring to a boil, then take it off the heat.
- 240 g flour
- 400 g granulated sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
Whisk the flour, granulated sugar, baking soda and salt together in a large bowl until combined and free of lumps.
- 120 g sour cream
- 2 whole eggs
Whisk the sour cream and the eggs together in a smaller bowl.
Beat the sour cream mixture into the flour mixture with an electric hand mixer, increasing to medium speed, to a thick batter.
Add the warm chocolate mixture while mixing on low until smooth, then fold the bottom up to the top with a spatula.
Heating the water and butter with the cocoa powder blooms the cocoa and gives an intense chocolate flavour.
Pour into the sheet pan and nudge it to the corners; it levels out on its own.
- ½ cup unsalted butter
Bake at 350F for 15 to 18 minutes, until a skewer in the middle comes out with just a couple of crumbs.
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- 120 ml whole milk
- 25 g cocoa powder
For the frosting, bring the unsalted butter, whole milk and cocoa powder to a boil in a medium pan over medium heat.
- 4 cups powdered sugar
Whisk four cups of powdered sugar into the warm cocoa butter mixture a cup at a time until smooth and bound together.