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Thursday, April 30, 2026

Texas Sheet Cake

Last weekend's birthday gathering had cake, but not what one might normally think of as "birthday cake." Instead, we went with a Texas sheet cake, deeply chocolatey and fudgy, with its amazing pecan-studded frosting glaze, which is really what brings it all together. This has been a long-time favorite from growing up in Buies Creek, a regular treat my mother would make and that really became the take-back-to-college staple. But I have neglected it over the last several years: it's only appeared not quite once a year for almost a decade now. That's a shame.


"Scotch Chocolate Cake," [in my world, also known as Texas sheet cake]. Credited to Susie Timmons. From "Popular: Cake Request Gets 22 Responses," by Michael Hastings, Food Editor of the Winston-Salem Journal. [Published 06 October 6 2010 / Updated 16 April 2021]

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