Recipe: Yummy Denver Chocolate Sheet Cake

Denver Chocolate Sheet Cake. Combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in a large bowl, and whisk well. While cake is baking, make the icing. Cut into squares, eat, and totally wig out over the fact that you've just made the best chocolate sheet cake.

My easy chocolate sheet cake is basically perfect. So fluffy and FULL of chocolate flavor, without being oily and sad like so many store bought cakes. A nice dollop of fudge transforms this buttercream into something almost magical but if you don't have any handy try adding in some ganache! You can have Denver Chocolate Sheet Cake using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Denver Chocolate Sheet Cake

1. Prepare 16 Tbsp. of unsalted butter in 16 pieces.
2. Prepare 1 Tbsp. of Butter to grease pan.
3. It's 2 1/2 cups of all purpose flour.
4. You need 2 cups of sugar.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
6. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
7. It's 1/4 cup of cocoa.
8. Prepare 1/2 cup of buttermilk.
9. You need 2 of eggs lightly beatened.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla.
11. It's 1 1/2 cups of water.
12. You need of For the frosting.
13. You need 8 Tbsp of unsalted butter in 8 pieces.
14. You need 1 of \4 cup cocoa.
15. Prepare 6 Tbsp of buttermilk.
16. You need 1 tsp of vanilla.
17. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
18. It's 1 pound of confectioners sugar.
19. Prepare 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts or pecans (optional).

This fabulous chocolate sheet cake only requires one pot for mixing and is topped with the most amazing milk chocolate ganache frosting. Chocolate-laden holidays aside, this is the best simple chocolate cake I've ever made. It has a rich chocolate flavor, is supremely moist, and is topped with. Our Favorite Chocolate Sheet Cake Recipe.

Denver Chocolate Sheet Cake step by step

1. For cake : Place oven rake in middle position. preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 x 13 inch sheet pan. Combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Whisk well..
2. Combine butter, cocoa and 1 1\2 cups water in a medium sauce pan over medium-low heat. Whisk frequently until butter has melted and mixture is smooth, glossy and bubbling around the edges. Remove from heat..
3. Fold cocoa mixture into dry ingredients until combined. Stir in buttermilk, eggs and vanilla. pour batter into greased and floured pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely on a oven rack..
4. For frosting : Combine butter, cocoa and buttermilk in a small saucepan over medium low heat. Whisk until butter has melted and mixture is smooth and bubbling around edges. Remove from heat and transfer to a standing mixer bowl.
5. Mix on low speed, add vanilla, salt, sugar and nuts if using. Pour warm frosting over top of cake and smooth with a spatula. Allow frosting to become firm before slicing..

It's Simple, Moist, Delicious And Serves A Lot Making It Our Go-To Party Dessert - Perfect With Ice Cream. Stir together for a moment to cool the chocolate, then pour in the egg mixture. This old fashioned German chocolate sheet cake is a nice treat to make for any occasion. The rich flavor blends perfectly with the texture. The children were full after eating pizza, veggies and dip, etc. - but each of them asked for seconds!