Easy & Moist Chocolate Sheet Cake

Easy & Moist Chocolate Sheet Cake

from littlesweetbaker.com
Dessert
50 min
24 servings
307 kcal / serving

This incredible chocolate cake recipe is just as easy to make as a boxed cake mix. It's crazy moist and super delicious. The luscious chocolate frosting is silky-smooth and creamy.

Ingredients

  • 1 ¾ cupsall purpose flour
  • 2 cupsgranulated sugar
  • ¾ cupnatural unsweetened cocoa powder (sifted)
  • 2 ¼ tspbaking soda
  • ½ tspbaking powder
  • 1 tspsalt
  • 1 cupmilk
  • ½ cupvegetable oil
  • 1 ½ tspvanilla extract
  • 2 largeeggs
  • 1 cuphot water
  • 1 cupunsalted butter (softened)
  • 4 cupspowdered sugar
  • 4 tbspmilk or cream
  • ½ cupnatural unsweetened cocoa powder (sifted)
  • 1 tspvanilla extract
  • sprinkles (optional)

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350F and grease a 9x13" baking pan with non-stick baking spray or butter.

  2. 2

    In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.

  3. 3

    In a medium bowl, whisk together the milk, vegetable oil, vanilla and eggs.

  4. 4

    Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until combined with a rubber spatula.

  5. 5

    Add in the hot water and whisk until smooth.

  6. 6

    Pour into the prepared baking pan and bake for 30-32 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with a few moist crumbs.

  7. 7

    Let cool completely before frosting.

To prepare the buttercream:

  1. 1

    Using a handheld or stand mixer, beat the butter for 1 minute until creamy. Mix in 1 cup of powder sugar and with 1 tbsp of milk/cream at a time, mixing well in between.

  2. 2

    Mix in the cocoa powder and vanilla until smooth. Add more milk/cream if necessary for a spreadable consistency.