Texas sheet cake with hot cocoa icing
A large thin American cocoa and buttermilk cake, covered while warm with cocoa and pecan icing.
Active time30 min
Cooking30 min
Total1 h 30 minResting : 30 min
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Ingredients
- 425 g salted butter
- 90 ml whole milk
- 2 large eggs
- 60 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 240 ml water
- 10 ml vanilla extract
- 240 g white wheat flour
- 57 g shelled pecans
- ¼ tsp fine salt
- 397 g white sugar
- 397 g icing sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 120 ml plain unsweetened buttermilk
Preparation
Preheat a conventional oven to 180 °C and use an ungreased 33 × 46 cm rimmed metal tray. Mix flour, white sugar and salt. Bring water to the boil for about 5 minutes. Cut the butter into pieces. Melt 227 g butter with 30 g cocoa in a saucepan for about 5 minutes, stirring. Add boiling water, bubble for 30 seconds and remove from heat. Pour over dry ingredients and stir to cool slightly.
425 g salted butter60 g unsweetened cocoa powder240 ml water240 g white wheat flour¼ tsp fine salt397 g white sugar- oven
- rimmed metal tray
- bowl
- kettle
- saucepan
- spatula
- knife
Beat eggs and mix with buttermilk, baking soda and 5 ml vanilla. Stir into the slightly cooled batter without overmixing. Spread on the tray and bake for about 20 minutes. A centre skewer should carry moist crumbs but no raw batter. Make icing during the last 5 minutes of baking to pour it hot as soon as the cake comes out.
2 large eggs10 ml vanilla extract1 tsp baking soda120 ml plain unsweetened buttermilk- bowl
- whisk
- measuring spoons
- spatula
- rimmed metal tray
- oven
- wooden skewer
- oven gloves
Chop the pecans. Sift the icing sugar. During the end of baking, melt the remaining 198 g butter with 30 g cocoa in a saucepan for about 5 minutes, stirring. Off the heat add milk, the remaining 5 ml vanilla, sifted icing sugar and chopped pecans. Stir smooth and pour at once over the warm cake. Gently spread and let set and cool for about 30 minutes on the tray before cutting into small pieces.
90 ml whole milk57 g shelled pecans397 g icing sugar- saucepan
- spatula
- measuring spoons
- sieve
- rimmed metal tray
- rack
- knife
- chopping board
Allergens
- Eggs
- Gluten
- Milk
- Tree nuts
Composition to check for: Celery, Crustaceans, Fish, Lupin, Molluscs, Mustard, Peanuts, Sesame, Soy, Sulphites.
Sources and credits
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