Texas Sheet Cake 

Ingredients:

Cake:

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla

2 sticks margarine - melted

2 cups flour

4 Tbsp cocoa

1 cup buttermilk

2 cups nuts -chopped  (optional - I prefer pecans or walnuts best, but I usually leave the nuts out of the cake and just put in the icing).

Icing:

1 stick margarine - melted

4 Tbsp cocoa

6 Tbsp buttermilk

4 cups powdered sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla

1 cup nuts - chopped (optional - I prefer pecans or walnuts best)

Directions:

1. In a mixing bowl combine sugar, eggs, salt, baking soda, vanilla and margarine together and mix. Then add the flour, cocoa, buttermilk, and nuts if choosing to. Mix with hand mixer until smooth.
2. Pour batter into a greased, large jelly roll pan (17"x 12" x 2" or so).
3. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.
4. As soon as the cake is done, make the icing. In a sauce pan combine margarine, cocoa, and buttermilk together as margarine melts. Then add the powdered sugar and vanilla. Stir until smooth. Add nuts if choosing to. Pour immediately over the warm cake and spread out to all edges of the cake.

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