Best Chocolate Cake EVER?!

I made a meal for some friends of ours who just had a sweet baby girl! I wasn't sure what to take for dessert so I checked my second favorite recipe blog and came up with this recipe. And I topped it with this frosting. I'll let them be the judge of whether it was the best chocolate cake (I made cupcakes)  EVER :)

Here's the recipes

FOR THE CAKE:


2 cups Flour

2 cups Sugar

¼ teaspoons Salt

4 Tablespoons (heaping) Cocoa

2 sticks Butter

1 cup Boiling Water

½ cups Buttermilk

2 whole Beaten Eggs

1 teaspoon Baking Soda

1 teaspoon Vanilla

Note: I use an 18×13 sheet cake pan.
In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, and salt.
In a saucepan, melt butter. Add cocoa. Stir together.

Add boiling water, allow mixture to boil for 30 seconds, then turn off heat. Pour over flour mixture, and stir lightly to cool.

In a measuring cup, pour the buttermilk and add beaten eggs, baking soda, and vanilla. Stir buttermilk mixture into butter/chocolate mixture. Pour into sheet cake pan and bake at 350-degrees for 20 minutes.

While cake is baking, make the icing. Chop pecans finely. Melt butter in a saucepan. Add cocoa, stir to combine, then turn off heat. Add the milk, vanilla, and powdered sugar. Stir together. Add the pecans, stir together, and pour over warm cake.

Cut into squares, eat, and totally wig out over the fact that you’ve just made the best chocolate sheet cake. Ever.


FOR THE FROSTING
5 Tablespoons Flour


1 cup Milk

1 teaspoon Vanilla

1 cup Butter

1 cup Granulated Sugar (not Powdered Sugar!)

Preparation Instructions

Bake your favorite chocolate cake and let it cool.

In a small saucepan, whisk flour into milk and heat, stirring constantly, until it thickens. You want it to be very thick, thicker than cake mix, more like a brownie mix is. Remove from heat and let it cool to room temperature. (If I’m in a hurry, I place the saucepan over ice in the sink for about 10 minutes or so until the mixture cools.) It must be completely cool before you use it in the next step. Stir in vanilla.

While the mixture is cooling, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. You don’t want any sugar graininess left. Then add the completely cooled milk/flour/vanilla mixture and beat the living daylights out of it. If it looks separated, you haven’t beaten it enough! Beat it until it all combines and resembles whipped cream.

Grab a spoon and taste this wonderful goodness. If there is any left after your taste test, spread it on a cooled chocolate cake.

Cut yourself a piece and put it on a pretty plate. Grab a fork and prepare to experience the most divine pairing you can imagine. This frosting on chocolate cake is to die for. Sure, the recipe sounds strange — it has flour in it — but it’s sublime. Try it, you’ll see. You’ll love it so much you won’t go back.





Other than that I found the chairs for the kids' desk/table and I found a smallish lounge chair (for next to the fireplace) that I'm going to make do with, until I decided to take the plunge and buy the (expensive) foam and try my upholstery skills on the chair I really want to build.

I need to stay on task and try to finish the entire room before this weekend. But, I'm not positive on how I'm arranging the furniture, you know minor details : ) I think Andy is hoping I just would buy a really expensive piece of furniture and run out of money so I will stopping doing projects :)

And on another side note it, just hit me tonight that I'm going to be leaving my kids overnight this weekend and I'm slightly overwhelmed. So you know, you can pray for me, if you want!