Are you looking for a great cake to top off a celebration? Or wow your family? Or maybe just satisfy your sweet tooth?

Y'all, this is the easiest and tastiest Chocolate Sheet cake ever. I have made this puppy hundreds of times, and it always turns out.

We always chuckle a little at the name sheet cake because sometimes we have heard it referred to as a "Sheath Cake". Hmmm. We say 'Sheet Cake', because it is baked in a rimmed baking pan, called a Sheet Pan.

Another check plus about this dessert is you don't dirty too many bowls when making it. It is all made in a large bowl and a sauce pan....even the icing at the end. And I love pouring the molten icing all over the baked cake, watching it puddle in the corners. YUMMMMM.

It calls for nuts in the icing. Sometimes G-Mom would just lay a half of pecan over what would be a nice two-inch square serving. Or sometimes, she would add the chopped pecans to the molten icing and the whole cake would be covered with nutty goodness. Your choice. We had some around here who didn't like the nuts so we did a combo- half the cake had half pecans studded on it and the other half just the chocolate icing, no nuts.

There are loads of recipes out there for a sheet cake, but this one, y'all, is tested and proven for generations. A perfect dessert to feed a crowd or bring to a pot luck or party. Makes a birthday extra special!

Do you have a recipe like this? Or a special name for a chocolate sheet cake? Let me know in the comments.

Ingredients

• 2 cups Flour

• 2 cups Sugar

• 1/2 cup Butter

• 1 cup Water

• 1/2 cup Butter Crisco

• 3 1/2 tablespoons Cocoa

• 1/2 cup Buttermilk

• 2 Eggs

• 1 tsp. Baking Soda

• 1 tsp. Vanilla

Instructions

1. Do not use mixer

2. Combine flour and sugar in a large bowl.

3. In a sauce pan, combine and bring to a boil the butter, water, shortening, and cocoa.

4. Pour over the flour and sugar mixture in the bowl.

5. Combine the buttermilk, eggs, baking soda and vanilla in the sauce pan.

6. Pour over the ingredients in the bowl.

7. Pour into a 12" x 18", greased rimmed baking sheet pan

8. Bake for 20 minutes at 400

9. When cake has been baking 18 minutes, prepare the icing

10. For the Icing, combine in the same sauce pan as before:

11. 1 Stick of butter,

12. 3 1/2 Tbs cocoa

13. and 1/3 cup milk

14. Bring to a boil and add 1 lb. powdered sugar, stirring until all the lumps are gone.

15. You can also add 1 cup chopped pecans if you'd like (or lay whole pecans over the finished cake)

16. Pour the icing with the nuts over hot cake when you remove the cake from the oven, covering the whole cake with chocolaty, nutty goodness

17. or if you are using the pecan halves, lay pecan halves on top of icing, using as many as you want