Gail’s Easy Chocolate sheet cake

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My mom had many friends during her nursing career and she still has lunch, coffee and birthday dinners with some of them. I remember them fondly and they were a big part of my growing up. There are several that I still see including my dear KayK who I mentioned in the Carrot cake recipe I posted. Another one of Mom’s long time friends, Gail, gave her a recipe for a chocolate sheet cake years ago. This recipe has been passed from my mom to me and down to my kids as well. When mom visited Saudi she taught my kids to make it and I still have the typed up recipe card she gave us.  It is easy and has always turned out great with no hassles!  The batter is runny and you frost it while it is warm.

Ingredients

4 Tbs. baking cocoa

1 cup butter

1 cup water

2 cups sugar

2 beaten eggs

1/2 buttermilk

2 cups flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. cinnamon-optional

Frosting

6 Tbs. milk

1/2 cup butter

4 Tbs. cocoa

1 box powdered sugar

Optional-1 cup chopped walnuts

The recipe calls for a box of powdered sugar so I looked it up and it should be around 3-4 cups.

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

Grease a 9X13 baking pan that has sides.

Mix first 3 ingredients from recipe (butter, water, cocoa)  in a sauce pan on the stove. Stir on low heat until everything is melted and well mixed. Turn off heat and get other ingredients ready.  Put flour and sugar in mixing bowl, pour cocoa mixture over this, add eggs, buttermilk, soda, cinnamon, basically all of the other cake ingredients.  Start mixing, make sure all ingredients are mixed in well. Batter will be runny.

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Pour into greased pan

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Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until done. Do not over bake.

Remove from oven.

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Frosting

Place butter, milk and cocoa in a sauce pan on the stove on low heat. Mix and melt butter and other ingredients together.  Place powdered sugar into mixing bowl. Add melted chocolate and mix well. Spread over cake while it is still warm.

Optional– When frosting is done you can add chopped walnuts if you like.

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121 thoughts on “Gail’s Easy Chocolate sheet cake”

  3. Your recipe sounds delicious and looks mouth watering, Lyn. 🙂 My family loves ♡ chocolate anything. I will have to screen save this to use sometime for a gathering! Hope you have been enjoying a good weekend and hope this week is fun, too. 🙂

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  11. It looks like a very quick cake to make and just delicious to eat. The frosting you’ve used, with the powdered sugar (icing sugar over here) is probably what we call buttercream – most people’s favourite. Thank you for the recipe, Lynn.

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  21. Oh , dear lord , you have answered my chocolate prayers , I so have to try this , I actually have my funky bunches school events coming up, so this is gonna be perfect , I am def gonna try this this week , Thank you so much and I am glad I found you on Food by Camilla’s Bloggie ! Yay , another crazy amazing blog I get to fall in love with, Have a Fantastic Week Doll 😀

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  29. Hi Lyn I have nominated you for the Starlight Blogger Award .. if you do not have to time to accept that is fine it is just a token of my appreciation.. http://lynzrealcooking.com/
    I am a mom of 9 who grew up in the beautiful Northwest. I lived in the Middle East for 16 years where I raised my 9 kids and met people from all over the world. I learned authentic recipes and would love to share them with you!

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  34. I make a cherry chocolate cake that is similar to this one…it has cherry filling mixed in with the batter and is so good. I will have to try this recipe with the cherries and see how that turns out. It looks really yummy!!

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