Chocolate Cookie Sheet Cake

By Bailey1_

Lucy Miele--1935--2007

Ingredients

• Sift together:
• 2 cups sifted flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• In a saucepan place:
• 12 cup butter or margarine
• 1 cup water
• 6 Tablespoons cocoa powder
• In another bowl mix:
• 2 well-beaten eggs
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1/2 cup buttermilk or 1/2 cup milk soured with 1-1/2 teaspoons vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• Icing:
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine
• 6 Tablespoons cocoa
• 4 Tablespoons milk
• 1 Lb. powdered sugar (3-1/4 cups)
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Preparation

Step 1

Bring to a boil the saucepan items and pour over the flour mixture.
Add bowl mixture to the flour mixture and mix well.
Bake in a jelly-roll pan for 20 minutes @ 350.
Start making icing the last five minutes cake is baking.
Icing:
Heat over ow flame, but do not boil.
First 3 ingredients.
Remove from heat and add last 3 ingredients.
Mix well. Frost cookie sheet cake as soon as removed from oven.
let cool in pan on rack. Cut cake in squares when cool.