While I love chocolate, I’m not generally a fan of chocolate cake.  As I was looking around on pinterest, I found this picture of Texas chocolate sheet cake.  It just looked too good not to try.

Here are the ingredients for the cake:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 4 heaping Tablespoons unsweetened baking cocoa
• 2 sticks butter
• 1 cup boiling water
• ½ cup buttermilk 
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

The pictures from the original link are so pretty I’m almost embarrassed to post mine, but here goes! 

Melt the two sticks of butter in a medium size sauce pan on the stove.  Add the baking cocoa, 1 cup of boiling water and let the mixture boil for about 30 seconds while stirring.  Set the cocoa mixture to the side while you mix together the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl.  Add the cocoa mixture to the flour mixture and stir.

Combine the 1/2 cup of buttermilk, 2 eggs, vanilla, and baking soda together and stir it into the cocoa mixture.  Pour this into a greased 13 x 18 inch cookie sheet pan.   Bake at 350°C for 20 minutes.

While the cake is baking, go ahead and make the frosting.

Here are the ingredients:

• 1 3/4 sticks butter
• 4 heaping Tablespoons unsweetened baking cocoa
• 6 Tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 pound (minus 1/2 cup) powdered sugar

Melt the butter in a medium saucepan.  (I just rinsed out the pan I used for the cake.)  Add the cocoa and stir for about 30 seconds until all the cocoa is dispersed in the butter.  Take off the heat and add the milk, vanilla and the powdered sugar.  Pour the icing on the cake.

Easiest and tastiest chocolate cake ever!