Chocolate Sheet Cake

(Taste's exactly like Johnny Carino's!)

INGREDIENTS

For cake:

2 cups flour

2 cups sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 sticks butter

4 heaping tablespoons cocoa

1 cup boiling water

1/2 cup buttermilk

2 beaten eggs

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon vanilla

For icing:

1/2 cup finely chopped pecans

1 3/4 sticks butter

4 heaping tablespoons cocoa

6 tablespoons milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 lb minus 1/2 cup powdered sugar

DIRECTIONS

Combine in a mixing bowl:

2 cups flour

2 cups sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

In a saucepan, melt:

2 sticks butter

Add 4 heaping tablespoons cocoa. Stir together.

Add 1 cup boiling water, allow mixture to boil for 30 seconds, then turn off heat. Pour over flour mixture, and stir lightly to cool.

In measuring cup, pour 1/2 cup buttermilk.

Add:

2 beaten eggs

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon vanilla

Stir buttermilk mixture into butter/chocolate mixture. Pour into sheet cake pan and bake at 350-degrees for 20 minutes. (Mine took longer.)

While cake is baking, make icing:

Chop 1/2 cup pecans finely.

Melt 1 3/4 sticks butter in a saucepan.

Add 4 heaping tablespoons cocoa, stir to combine, then turn off heat.

Add:

6 tablespoons milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 lb minus 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Stir together.

Add pecans, stir together, and pour over warm cake.

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