This Double Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake recipe feeds a large group of guests, perfect for SUMMER, Memorial Day, or Fourth of July entertaining!

Life seems simple and easier this time of year — when the sun rises early and sets late, giving us extra hours to gather with friends late into the evening for fresh, casual meals.

Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake

Or when you whip up a Double Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake recipe to feed a crowd. When we can just slip on a pair of flip-flops and our schedules are more relaxed. If you like a “white” cake, then try this Basic Texas Sheet Cake Recipe!

What makes it easy for me, when I’m asked to bring a dessert or make something up for a large group we may be entertaining, is to pull out my KitchenAid stand mixer and bake a cake.

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Today’s recipe isn’t the standard Texas Sheet Cake recipe that everyone makes. It has a little bit more chocolate than normal.

Double Chocolate Recipes

It’s similar, except the extra chunks or chips of chocolate makes it Doubly Chocolatey Good!

If you’re a chocolate lover like I am, then try this Melt-In-Your-Mouth Double Chocolate Brownie Recipe or Whole Grain Double Chocolate Brownie Cookies!

Double Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake

You don’t have to wash the large KitchenAid mixing bowl (I love the KA Artisan size) once the cake is in the oven; just add the frosting ingredients right to the same bowl and mix. Super efficient!

Spread the frosting on the cake while it’s hot. Good luck if you can keep your fingers out of the frosting.

Everyone loves it – everyone!

It has the best creamy frosting.

The best!

And it’s easy to cut and display on a platter and serve to your guests. Easy!

It always feeds a crowd.

Cut the pieces small.

Add little flags and your’e set for the 4th of July!!

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Double Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake Recipe

This Double Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake Recipe feeds a crowd, perfect for Memorial Day or Fourth of July entertaining!
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Yield: 18
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Ingredients
 

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 cup cocoa
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips, or chunks
  • FROSTING:
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup cocoa
  • 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk
  • 1 box, 1 pound confectioners’ sugar, sifted (4 1/4 cups sifted)
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions
 

  • Combine the butter, water, and cocoa in saucepan over medium heat; heat until butter melts.
  • Add sugar, flour, salt, eggs, baking soda, sour cream, and vanilla; mix well. Pour into a 15x10x1-inch jelly roll pan.
  • Sprinkle the chocolate chips (chunks) over the batter.
  • Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
  • Frost the cake while it is hot.
  • For frosting, combine butter, cocoa, and milk in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Add remaining ingredients and mix well with electric mixer.
  • Spread frosting over hot cake and sprinkle with chopped pecans (optional).
  • Cool and serve.

Notes

Originally posted JULY 2013
Course: Dessert
Author: Sandy / Reluctant Entertainer
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