Texas Sheet Cake

Cake

• 2 sticks butter (or 1 butter & 1 quality oleo)
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• 1 cup water
• 2 cups sifted flour
• 2 cups sugar
• dash salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 2 eggs, slightly beaten (XL)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla (pure)

Icing

• 1 stick butter
• 1/4 cup coca
• 6 tablespoons milk
• 1 box powdered sugar (sift if lumpy)
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (not fine)
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla

1. To prepare cake:
2. Melt butter in a large pan
3. Add: cocoa and water. Heat to boiling. Remove from heat.
4. Sift together and add to pan ingredients: shifted flour, sugar, salt, baking soda.
5. Mix but don't beat ingredients: sour cream, eggs, and vanilla.
6. Bake 20 minutes in a 10x 15x1 inch greased pan.
7. Remove from oven and ice immediately.
8. To Prepare Icing:
9. Prepare while cake is baking and ice cake immediately (carefully with metal spatual is best).
10. Melt butter in pan and add cocoa, milk, and stir (low fire) until slightly thick and remove from fire.
11. Mix in: powdered sugar (sift if lumpy), chopped walnuts, and vanilla.
12. Cut into squares when cool