Yellow Sheet Cake with Chocolate Frosting

What are you celebrating today?  An anniversary?  A birthday?  The weekend?  Fall?  I'm pretty much an expert at inventing reasons to celebrate with cake. 😅If you're craving cake but you've don't have a good excuse to bake one for yourself - I got you. 🍰

​If you're a mom or a dad - you deserve cake.  If you're a student who's drowning in homework  assignments - you deserve cake.  If you've been working as a healthcare worker or a first responder in 2020 - you deserve cake.  If you are hosting or attending a large family gathering during the holidays - cake.  If you've endured the 1,000,000 political commercials on primetime television this month, YOU deserve cake.  👊🏻

I think you get the point.  Cake is great every day!  If you need a super simple homemade cake recipe without all the fussy decorations or messy frosting - look no further.  Skip the box mixes and canned frosting - homemade cake is sooooo much better and in all honesty - not all that much more effort.  So, no matter what you choose to celebrate today - enjoy this delicious homemade yellow cake.

Yellow Sheet Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Cake
4 eggs plus 2 yolks
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 Tablespoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups cake flour
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 Tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup vegetable oil

Frosting
2 1/4 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup cocoa powder
8 Tablespoons butter, softened
1/4 cup hot water
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, melted

Whisk together eggs, yolks, buttermilk and vanilla. 

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in mixing bowl. 

Add butter and oil and mix on low until combined.  

Slowly add egg mixture.   Beat on high for 3 minutes.  

Transfer batter to a greased, metal 9x13" pan.  

Bake 28-32 minutes at 350.

For frosting, combine sugar, cocoa, butter, water and salt.  

Whip with whisk attachment for 1 minute.  

Add melted chocolate and whip until incorporated. 

Let sit at room temperature 30-40 minutes until spreadable consistency. 

Frost cake.  Refrigerate 20 minutes until set. 

Nothing makes a Wednesday night meal more exciting than a piece of this deliciously buttery yellow cake.  

​Ciao!

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