Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake

By dcarriger56

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup butter or margarine
• 1 cup water
• 1 heaping tablespoons Hershey's cocoa

Preparation

Step 1

In a bowl, mix together flour, sugar, eggs, sour cream, salt and baking soda. Set aside. In a saucepan, bring to a butter, water and cocoa to a boil. Remove from heat. Stir into flour mixture and beat with electric mixer at medium speed until smooth.
Pour into greased (vegetable-sprayed) 15x10 1 inch baking pan or jelly-roll pan. Bake at 350 F. for 20 to 22 minutes, or until cake tests done. Remove from oven; let sit for 15 to 20 minutes.
FROSTING
4 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup milk
4 tablespoons Hershey's cocoa
1 cup chopped walnuts
In a large bowl mix together confectioner's sugar and vanilla and set aside. In a saucepan, combine butter, milk and cocoa. Bring to boil. Remove from heat and add to sugar and vanilla. Mix well with electric mixer at meduim speed, then stir in walnuts and spread over a warm cake. Note; to prepare the White Almond Texas Cake. substitute 1 teaspoon almond extract for cocoa In frosting eliminate cocoa and add 1/2 teaspoon alond extract.