Yellow Sheet Cake With Chocolate Frosting
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Serves:
-
18
ingredients
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Cake
- cooking spray
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1⁄2 cup butter, melted
- 1 (8 ounce) carton nonfat sour cream
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 cup egg substitute (or 2 eggs)
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup low-fat buttermilk
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Frosting
- 1⁄2 cup block-style fat free cream cheese, softened
- 1⁄4 cup butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄3 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1 -2 tablespoon fat-free evaporated milk
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups powdered sugar, divided
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Coat bottom only of a 13 x 9-inch baking pan with cooking spray; line bottom of pan with wax paper. Coat wax paper with cooking spray; dust with 1 tablespoon flour. Set aside. (If you plan to serve the cake straight from the pan instead of unmolding it, you can skip the wax paper step.).
- Cake: Stir 1/2 cup butter and sour cream with a whisk until well blended.
- Add granulated sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla; beat at medium speed 3 minutes or until well blended.
- Add egg substitute; beat 2 minutes or until well blended.
- Stir 2 cups flour, baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt well with a whisk.
- Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; mix after each addition.
- Pour batter into prepared pan. Sharply tap pan once on counter to remove air bubbles.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan.
- Carefully peel off wax paper; cool completely on wire rack.
- Frosting: Beat the cream cheese, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla at high speed until fluffy.
- Add cocoa, milk, and 1/8 teaspoon salt; beat at low speed until well blended.
- Gradually add 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar; beat at low speed until creamy.
- Gradually add remaining 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar.
- Place cake on a serving platter. Spread frosting over top and sides of cake.
- Store cake loosely covered in the refrigerator.
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Vino Girl
United States
My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
Amber:
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........And a grown up Jake (one year old in January 2008) :) -
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Charlotte (May 27, 1992-June 1, 2009):
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Ashley: Adopted October 8, 1996 - Passed Away January 6, 2009
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Mike: September 26, 1994 - March 19, 2004<img src="http://netnet.net/~mkburie/mike1997-lr.JPG">....
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