Name: The Best Chocolate Sheet Cake Recipe in Town
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Ingredients: 250ml water; 250g butter; ¼ cup cocoa, heaped; 1 tablespoon instant coffee; 2 cups white sugar; 2 cups flour; ¼ tsp salt; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 2 eggs lightly whisked (I used a manual beater for 1 minute); ½ cup plain yoghurt or buttermilk; 1 tsp vanilla essence; 2 cups sifted icing sugar; ½ cup cocoa; 90ml melted butter; 1/3 cup plain yoghurt / buttermilk

Description

The recipe everyone has to have – an absolutely delicious, melt-in-the-mouth fail proof, flop proof chocolate cake recipe. And here it is!

Ingredients

For the Cake

250ml water
250g butter
¼ cup cocoa, heaped
1 tablespoon instant coffee
2 cups white sugar
2 cups flour
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 eggs lightly whisked (I used a manual beater for 1 minute)
½ cup plain yoghurt or buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla essence

For the Icing

2 cups sifted icing sugar
½ cup cocoa
90ml melted butter
1/3 cup plain yoghurt / buttermilk

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Instructions

For the cake:

Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius
Mix the dry ingredients together
Mix the wet ingredients together
Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and combine until smooth
Pour into a rectangular baking dish
Bake in your preheated oven for 40 – 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool before icing.

For the Icing:

Mix the icing sugar, cocoa, melted butter and buttermilk(or yoghurt) together and stir until well combined.
Spread over the cake once cooled.

Notes

I used a rectangular glass baking dish 35cm x 22cm