Grandma Stoddard'S Texas Sheet Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

Cake Ingredients
1 cup butter
1 cup water
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
Icing Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
4 tablespoons cocoa
6 tablespoons milk
1 lb powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup pecans, chopped

Preparation

For Cake:.
Grease 10x15x2 pan (jelly roll pan).
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
In a medium saucepan, bring to a boil: butter, water and cocoa. Remove from heat and set aside.
In a medium mixing bowl, sift together: sugar, flour and salt.
In a seperate bowl, beat together: eggs, buttermilk (or sour cream), vinegar, vanilla and baking soda.
Pour both the egg/milk mixture and the warm chocolate mixture into the flour mixture. Stir until well mixed.
Pour warm batter into greased pan.
Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes.
While cake is baking, prepare frosting.
For frosting:.
Bring to a boil: butter, cocoa and milk.
Add: powdered sugar, vanilla and nuts.
Spread on cake immediately after removing cake from oven. Must be hot spread easily.