Old Southern Chocolate Pecan Sheet Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease bottom and sides of a 9x13-inch pan.
• Mix 2 cups white sugar, flour, and salt in a mixing bowl.
• Combine water, vegetable shortening, margarine, and 3 tablespoons cocoa powder in a saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil over medium heat, stirring frequently. Pour liquid into flour mixture and stir well. Return saucepan to stove and set it aside.
• Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk in a large liquid measuring cup and stir in eggs and vanilla extract. Pour egg mixture into cake batter and mix until fully combined. Transfer batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake the cake in preheated oven until cake springs back when touched lightly with a finger or a tester comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.
• While cake is baking, prepare icing using reserved saucepan. Combine confectioners' sugar, 3 tablespoons cocoa powder, butter, milk, vanilla, and pecans in saucepan. Cook and stir over medium heat until hot but not boiling. Pour icing over hot cake immediately after it comes out of the oven. Allow cake to cool completely on a wire rack.

Steps:

• Preheat oven 350 degrees.
• Prepare 13x9" cake pan by coating with a thin film of butter and dusting with cocoa powder.
• sift flour and sugar together in large bowl.
• Melt butter with 1 cup of boiling water and cocoa, just until butter is melted Pour over flour/sugar mixture and add beaten eggs, baking soda, buttermilk and salt.
• Stir until well mixed. Use mixer to beat eggs only,,,mix in and mix cake well by hand
• Pour into cake pan, spreading evenly and bake for 22 to 25min.
• Frosting make frosting while cake bakes.
• Melt butter over medium-low heat Add cocoa and milk, stirring constantly.
• Pour over powdered sugar and mix well.
• Add vanilla and stir until smooth Add nuts and pour over warm cake.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour 13x9x2-inch metal baking pan. Bring 1/2 cup sugar, 6 tablespoons butter, and milk to boil in saucepan, whisking until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat. Add chips; whisk until frosting is smooth.
• Beat remaining 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup butter in large bowl to blend. Beat in eggs 1 at a time, then chocolate syrup and vanilla. Sift flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt over; beat to blend. Mix in pecans. Spread batter in prepared pan. Bake until tester inserted into center comes out with moist crumbs attached, about 45 minutes. Cool cake in pan. Spread frosting over cake. (Cake can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and store at room temperature.)