Texas Sheet Cake using Homemade Buttermilk

I am using the buttermilk I had left over from my previous post on How To Make Homemade Butter.


We had the family get together for a birthday and back to school party.
I made a Texas Sheet Cake for the party cake.

My homemade buttermilk was sweet and needed to be soured. This can be done with regular milk as well and used in this recipe.

To make a sour buttermilk or sour milk, just add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice or white vinegar to milk and let it sit for 15 minutes. It will begin to curdle or thicken just a little. It will taste sour at this point.

Mix up the cake batter.



The baked a frosted cake. Yummy!

Texas Sheet Cake
by Sandra Heyrend Buck
Serves: 20 slices

This has been a favorite cake of mine for years and is good for a family gathering served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

2 cups flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup butter or margarine
6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
1 cup water
1 cup buttermilk or sour milk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon

Icing:
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
7 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pound box powdered sugar or 4 cups
Chopped walnuts (optional)

Stir together flour and sugar in a mixing bowl. In saucepan mix together butter, cocoa and water. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Pour this over flour mixture and beat well. Add remaining ingredients and beat well again. Grease and flour a 10x15 jelly roll pan and pour in batter. Bake at 400-degrees for 13- 15 minutes. Remove from oven and ice hot cake with frosting.

Icing: Begin making the icing 5 minutes before the cake is done. In saucepan mix butter, cocoa, and milk; bring to a boil and remove from heat. Beat in vanilla and powdered sugar until smooth. Frost warm cake. Sprinkle icing with chopped walnuts if desired.