John Whoozier Cake
This is such a easy cake, it is moist and delicious. I got this from my Aunt Colleen Cunningham, this is quick and easy and makes enough for a crowd. I think it is just adifferent name for Texas Sheet Cake.
Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 20 minutes mins
Total Time 40 minutes mins
- 1 cup water
- 2 sticks butter or margarine
- 4 tbsp baking cocoa
- 2 cups flour
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
Icing
- 1 stick butter or margarine
- 4 tbsp baking cocoa
- 6 tbsp buttermilk
- 1 lb powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup chopped nuts
Cake
In a saucepan combine water, butter and cocoa bring to a boil and take off heat. Sift together ina mixing bowl, flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Add cocoa mixture to flour mixture and mixwell.
Add eggs, vanilla and buttermilk. Spray a large cookie sheet or jelly roll pan, pour cake into prepared pan and bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes.
Immediately when your remove from oven frost cake.
While cake is baking make icing:
Icing
Melt butter, cocoa and buttermilk in sauce pan. Bring to boil, remove from heat and add powdered sugar, a little at a time.
Add vanilla and mix well. You can add nuts to frosting or at our house some people can't eat nuts. So I put nuts on top of just half the cake