Texas Sheet Cake

This is Mom-Catherine's recipe, yummy yum! It is a very good chocolate cake.

• 2 cups of flour
• 2 cups of sugar
  
• 2 sticks of butter
  
• 4 tbsp heaping of cocoa
• 1cup water
• 2 eggs
• 1tsp real vanilla
• 1/2 sour cream
• 1tsp baking soda
• dash salt

Combine butter, cocoa, vanilla, and water bring to a boil. Mix in separate bowl eggs, vanilla, and sour cream. Mix remaining dry ingredients with sour cream mixture then pour water mixture with the rest and mix . Pour into a greased 9x13 pan and bake at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes.

Frosting

• 1 stick butter
• 5 tbsp water
• 4 tbsp cocoa

mix ingredients and heat until warm then add and mix

• 1 pound powder sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
  
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

spread over warm cake.

Submitted by April