Chocolate Sheet Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Chocolate sheet cake with chocolate frosting is moist and rich and feeds a crowd. The icing is not too sweet with a light chocolate flavour.
Servings: 30 servings
Equipment
- 16"x12" cake pan
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups white sugar
- ⅔ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp fine sea salt
- 3 eggs
- 1¾ cup milk
- ¼ cup melted butter, cooled
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Frosting
- ½ cup butter
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 Tbsp milk
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉
- Generously grease a 16-inch by 12-inch cake pan.
- In a large bowl, whisk together, flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and sea salt.
- In a separate bowl, beat the eggs with milk, melted butter and vanilla extract.
- Pour wet ingredients into the dry and stir well to combine
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean.
- Allow to cool completely before frosting.
Frosting
- Cream butter in a large bowl.
- Add half of the sugar and all the cocoa powder.
- Beat on low speed until combined.
- Beat in remaining sugar, milk and vanilla extract.
- Continue beating until smooth.
- Spread evenly over cooled cake.
Notes
This frosting is light on the chocolate. If you prefer a deeper chocolate flavour, add 2 additional tablespoons of cocoa powder and 1 tablespoon of milk to get a richer chocolate flavour.