Best Chocolate Sheet Cake Ever

Recipe from The Pioneer Woman and Tasty Kitchen, found here.

NOTE:

This cake is used in the Devil Dogs recipe, like for Whoopie Pies


INGREDIENTS

FOR THE CAKE
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/4 tsp salt
4 Tbl (heaping) cocoa
2 sticks butter
1 cup boiling water
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla

FOR THE FROSTING
1/2 cups finely chopped pecans
1-3/4 stick butter
4 Tbl (heaping) cocoa
6 Tbl milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 pound minus 1/2 cup powdered sugar


PREPARATION

Oven to 350.

1. Beat the eggs. Set aside. Also boil 1 cup water and keep hot/boiling.

2. In a standing mixer bowl, combine flour, sugar, and salt.

3. In a saucepan, melt butter. Add cocoa. Stir together.

4. Add boiling water, allow mixture to boil for 30 seconds, then turn off heat.

5. Pour over flour mixture, and stir lightly to cool.

6. In a large measuring cup, pour the buttermilk and add beaten eggs, baking soda, and vanilla.

7. Stir buttermilk mixture into butter/chocolate mixture.

8. Pour into sheet cake pan and bake at 350-degrees for 20 minutes.

9. While cake is baking, make the icing: Chop pecans finely.

10. Melt butter in a saucepan.

11. Add cocoa, stir to combine, then turn off heat.

12. Add the milk, vanilla, and powdered sugar. Stir together.

13. Add the pecans, stir together, and pour over warm cake.

Cut into squares, eat, and totally wig out over the fact that you’ve just made the best chocolate sheet cake. Ever.