Old Fashioned Chocolate Brownie Cake
Recipe: #14859
October 20, 2014
"This sheet cake is so good, the best part is the glaze. Adapted from Esther Shank's Mennonite Cookbook"
Original is 12-16 servings
Ingredients
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (190 g)
- Calories 749.4
- Total Fat - 41.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 18.8 g
- Cholesterol - 77.4 mg
- Sodium - 371 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 92.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.1 g
- Sugars - 76.1 g
- Protein - 5.2 g
- Calcium - 42.1 mg
- Iron - 0.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 x 13 pan. Or if you prefer, an 11 x 17 pan for thinner "brownie" cake. See bake time for larger pan below.
Step 2
Either on stove-top or in microwave, combine butter, shortening, cocoa and water and heat to boiling.
Step 3
Meanwhile, in mixing bowl, combine sugar and flour. Add hot mixture and mix to combine, then add remaining ingredients, beating until well blended.
Step 4
Pour into prepared pan and bake for 40-45 minutes, or until done. Prepare glaze before cake is done, it must be poured on cake immediately after removing from oven.
Step 5
Glaze:
Step 6
Five minutes before cake will be done, combine butter, cocoa and buttermilk and heat to boiling.
Step 7
Pour hot mixture into mixing bowl, add powdered sugar and vanilla and beat until smooth. Pour over cake and sprinkle with nuts right away.
Step 8
For Larger Pan:
Step 9
You will only need to bake the cake for about 25 minutes or until done.
Tips
No special items needed.
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