I just baked the world's most scrumptious chocolate cake ever. Then we ate it. All of it. The sheet pan is empty. Gone. Hardly any crumbs left. I got the recipe from The Pioneer Woman blog. PW has some mighty tasty looking recipes on her blog. http://www.thepioneerwomancooks.com/the_pioneer_woman_cooks/2007/06/the_best_chocol.html
My cake looked sort of like this one...but a little better! Don't you wish you could taste this cake? I could hardly get the frosting spread over it before the family demanded giant slices on real plates with cake forks and tall glasses of milk. I caved in and joined them. Wow. That's some amazing combination of chocolate, butter, sugar, freshly chopped crunchy pecans, vanilla, flour, sugar, buttermilk, salt, powdered sugar, and milk. Oh yeah. Happy birthday month to me! [I "borrowed" this pic from PW]
You might be wondering how we could polish off a sheet pan-sized cake in one evening. We had help. We brought in one of the all-time great dessert eaters - our son-in-law Joshua. He really knows his way around a piece of chocolate cake. This time I doubled the amount of pecans I folded into the homemade fudgey frosting. That frosting just melts down to the perfect consistency over the top of the cake. And I baked the cake for 19 minutes instead of 20 minutes which made it even more moist than last time. Ah yes, last time. That would be yesterday. Actually, I took the first cake to Bible Study at church last night. They helped it disappear almost all the way. Dan pretty much demolished the rest of it for breakfast this morning. Of course he had his assistant - Michael - inhaling it right along with him. There are certain things you want your house to smell like - I'm thinking a homemade chocolate cake ranks right up there on the heavenly smells list.